What can we actually do?

What can I do?

• Ask whether AI was used in a decision that affected you, and request human review.

  I have 10 minutes

• Ask your employer what happens to the time and money automation saves.

  I have influence at work · I have 10 minutes

• Write down what has changed in your own job this year and share it with us.

  I have a story to share · I have an hour

What can organisations do?

Employers, schools, agencies, community organisations.

• Consult the people affected before automating work.
• Disclose where AI is being used in decisions about staff and customers.
• Retain a named human accountable for automated decisions.
• Invest in retraining rather than only reducing headcount.
• Share productivity gains with the workforce that produced them.

What could governments consider?

Ideas worth exploring — not settled Pledge Human positions.

• Strengthen the right to know when an automated system made a decision about you.
• Protect the right to meaningful human review.
• Create transition protections for workers whose roles are automated.
• Explore how gains from automation could be more broadly shared.

What can I do?

• Ask your school what has been decided about AI, and who decided it.

  I have 10 minutes

• Agree household rules with your kids rather than for them.

  I have an hour

• Tell us what your school has put in place — good or bad.

  I have a story to share · I have 2 minutes

What can organisations do?

Employers, schools, agencies, community organisations.

• Publish where AI is used in teaching, marking and pastoral care.
• Give families a clear way to opt out or appeal.
• Train staff before introducing tools to students.
• Assess wellbeing impacts, not only efficiency gains.

What could governments consider?

Ideas worth exploring — not settled Pledge Human positions.

• Set minimum transparency standards for AI in schools.
• Require consultation with families before high-impact rollouts.
• Fund independent evidence on learning outcomes.

What can I do?

• Buy one thing this month directly from a person who made it.

  I have buying power · I have 10 minutes

• Ask the platforms you use to label and credit human-made work.

  I have 2 minutes

• Send us an example of work being replaced or used without credit.

  I have a story to share

What can organisations do?

Employers, schools, agencies, community organisations.

• Credit and pay the humans whose work you use.
• Disclose generated content clearly.
• Keep commissioning human work where it matters to the audience.

What could governments consider?

Ideas worth exploring — not settled Pledge Human positions.

• Clarify how training data interacts with copyright.
• Require disclosure of generated content in public communications.
• Support transitional funding for creative livelihoods.

What can I do?

• Spend ten minutes on the settings of the app you use most.

  I have 10 minutes

• Choose a service that asks for less access than it could.

  I have buying power

What can organisations do?

Employers, schools, agencies, community organisations.

• Collect the minimum data the service actually needs.
• Explain in plain language what leaves the device.
• Give people a real route to correction and deletion.

What could governments consider?

Ideas worth exploring — not settled Pledge Human positions.

• Strengthen enforcement, not just disclosure rules.
• Regulate high-impact automated decisions.

What can I do?

• Ask your council what was agreed on power, water and local jobs.

  I have 10 minutes

• Make a short submission to a local planning consultation.

  I have an hour

What can organisations do?

Employers, schools, agencies, community organisations.

• Publish energy and water use honestly.
• Assess and report community impacts before construction.
• Commit to local benefit that outlasts the build phase.

What could governments consider?

Ideas worth exploring — not settled Pledge Human positions.

• Require community consultation on large infrastructure.
• Regulate environmental impacts and resource pricing.
• Publish what public incentives bought.

What can I do?

• Ask, in any meeting about efficiency: who receives the gain?

  I have influence at work · I have 2 minutes

What can organisations do?

Employers, schools, agencies, community organisations.

• Report where productivity gains went.
• Consider shorter weeks or reduced workloads as well as margin.

What could governments consider?

Ideas worth exploring — not settled Pledge Human positions.

• Explore how the benefits of automation could be shared more broadly.
• Measure and publish where gains are landing.

What can I do?

• Call someone instead of generating a message.

  I have 2 minutes

• Move your next fifty dollars to an independent local business.

  I have buying power

• Host a kitchen-table conversation using our kit.

  I want to volunteer

What can organisations do?

Employers, schools, agencies, community organisations.

• Keep a human route for people who need one.
• Adopt human-first procurement questions.

What could governments consider?

Ideas worth exploring — not settled Pledge Human positions.

• Guarantee non-digital access to essential services.
• Support local economic development alongside automation.