AI Ethics and Process

November 12, 2026

At New Consensus, we hold our work to the highest standards of honesty, rigor, and revolutionary ambition. These same values guide us as we incorporate generative AI into our operations.

The risks from artificial intelligence are profound, and addressing them is central to our project. Under America’s current capitalist system, AI is on a course to put millions out of work, devour natural resources, and perhaps even kill many of us. Our plans are designed to counter the destructive values driving the industry, and the wider economy. We have already published a series of papers on shielding the public from the economic fallout of the AI bubble bursting, and the Mission for America is built around creating waves of new jobs that only humans can do.

At the same time, we believe that generative AI, used in an ethical and transparent manner, can be a powerful tool to support this work. Our team uses AI tools for a range of research, programming, and administrative purposes. The technology allows us to examine problems and generate solutions at a level of detail that would have been impossible only a few years ago. In every case, the tools are used to extend the talents of our staff, never to replace them.

Our Process and Standards

  • Every project and policy plan on this website was conceived by people, and nothing is published until staff have reviewed, edited, fact-checked, and approved it. AI tools play the role of research and writing assistants, gathering information, proofreading, and coding our website.
  • During research and writing, our staff use AI assistants to review drafts and suggest additional material to help fully implement our ideas, fill gaps, or reflect recent events. The AI also checks every policy paper for consistency with the larger Mission for America. None of these suggestions are included in our work until staff have verified them.
  • Staff regularly conduct interviews with independent human experts to research and verify the information found in our policy papers and projects. AI tools are used to record and transcribe interviews only with the explicit permission of the interview subject. Transcripts are kept private and are never used to train AI models.
  • In the coming months, we plan to use generative AI to make our work more accessible by incorporating features like translations and automated voice readings.

Ultimately, we believe the true threat to humanity is our economic system itself, not artificial intelligence. Even before the advent of modern AI, automation was already taking millions of jobs, Americans lived under constant surveillance, and tech oligarchs were getting rich peddling addictive slop. If the usual logic of capitalism prevails, AI stands to accelerate everything awful about the status quo. But our vision is a nation where people don’t have to fear artificial intelligence or any other technology, because it all works to benefit the public.

Even as new tools change our daily labor, the goal of New Consensus is the same: making the plans to build a new, clean economy that delivers prosperity for every American.