Each time we refuse, we make it easier for others (and ourselves) to refuse again. We can also make positive statements about what we value: authenticity, accountability, human connection, and credit where credit is due (e.g. to artists for their work).

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People think of privacy as a thing you have but it isn’t one thing. Your privacy is your being able to choose for yourself what you share about yourself, and when and with who, and the other word we have for that is dignity. Your inherent dignity as a human being; our privacy is our agency over our dignity.

And people who want to take that agency from us, who want the power to strip us of our privacy ultimately want to be able to strip us of our dignity, whenever it’s convenient for them.

Something I didn't get to say yesterday:

We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.