Shape
Help build better answers.
Some problems do not have good enough answers yet. Rather than pretending Pledge Human already knows the right solution, we bring people together to build one. Sessions listed here are placeholder structures until dates are confirmed.
The purpose is not simply to talk.
- 01
Listen
Start with the people the issue actually lands on.
- 02
Imagine
Put options on the table, including awkward ones.
- 03
Challenge
Invite the people most likely to find the flaws.
- 04
Test
Check it against evidence, cost and real conditions.
- 05
Refine
Rewrite it until it's strong enough to stand up in public.
Who's in the room
- people affected by the issue
- people with lived experience
- curious citizens
- researchers
- technologists
- economists
- lawyers
- policy experts
- community leaders
- industry people
Experts help answer specialist questions and challenge ideas. They don't get to dominate the conversation.
What a session should produce
- proposals
- principles
- prototypes
- pilot ideas
- policy options
- campaign concepts
- organisational commitments
- research questions
- public recommendations
We don't want good ideas to die in meeting notes.
- Shape session1 hourWorkStage: Listening
How should automation gains be shared?
Bring what you've seen at work. We're building a proposal, not a discussion thread.
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- Shape session1 hourChildrenStage: Listening
What should schools decide about AI, and with whom?
Parents, teachers and students working out what good practice would look like.
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- Contribution15 minutesInfrastructureStage: Imagining
Terms a community should get for hosting infrastructure
Add one condition you'd want if a data centre arrived where you live.
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- Challenge15 minutesCreativityStage: Challenging
Credit and pay for human-made work
Poke holes in a draft set of platform commitments before we publish it.
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- Contribution5 minutesPrivacyStage: Listening
What should a right to human review actually cover?
Five minutes: tell us where an appeal would have mattered to you.
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- Working groupOngoingDemocracyStage: Refining
Formats for citizen conversations that genuinely feed in
Monthly call testing and refining the process itself.
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Shape
Listen → Imagine → Challenge → Refine
Organise
Build → Mobilise → Advocate → Pilot → Push
When an idea is ready, we don't stop at talking.
Know a problem that needs a better answer?
Shape topics come from people telling us where current answers aren't good enough. If that's something you're living with, that's exactly the input we need.