The following Manifesto is designed to be a starting point for community engagement and adaptation, supporting industry alignment and positive social impact. As a cyborg anthropologist, I have studied human-machine interaction and its social and business implications for decades. Below is a distillation of the core values I have encountered from interviewing and working with thousands of global citizens.
Readers of this manifesto are encouraged to iterate upon it, reference it, and otherwise apply it provided the usage follows the creative commons definitions of Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0
MJ Petroni, Cyborg Anthropologist and AI Fluency Advocate
www.causeit.org | www.linkedin.com/in/causeit | www.digitalfluency.guide
We are entering the AI era. AI presents some of the greatest opportunities for—and risks to—our industry and society we have ever seen. Together with AI, we can solve seemingly ‘unsolvable’ problems and create exponential value.
It is not possible to see the future, yet inaction is not an option. To set direction, we’ve articulated priorities amongst these competing objectives:
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El siguiente Manifiesto está diseñado como punto de partida para la participación de la comunidad y su adaptación, fomentando la alineación de la industria y un impacto social positivo. Como antropólogo cyborg, he estudiado la interacción humano-máquina y sus implicaciones sociales y empresariales durante décadas. A continuación presento una destilación de los valores fundamentales que he identificado al entrevistar y colaborar con miles de personas de todo el mundo.
Se anima a los lectores de este manifiesto a iterar sobre él, referenciarlo y aplicarlo siempre que el uso cumpla con las definiciones de Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
MJ Petroni, antropólogo cyborg y catalizador de la fluidez en IA
www.causeit.org | www.linkedin.com/in/causeit | www.digitalfluency.guide
Entramos en la era de la IA. La inteligencia artificial ofrece algunas de las mayores oportunidades—y riesgos—para nuestra industria y sociedad que jamás hayamos visto. Junto con la IA, podemos resolver problemas aparentemente insolubles y generar valor exponencial.
No es posible prever el futuro, pero la inacción no es una opción. Para marcar un rumbo, hemos establecido prioridades entre estos objetivos en competencia:
©2025 Causeit, Inc./MJ Petroni | ©2025 Causeit, Inc./MJ Petroni | Versión 1, Publicado 21 Mayo 2025
MJ Petroni of Causeit, Inc. specializes in helping others understand the mental models necessary to navigate digital opportunities. A cyborg anthropologist (!), MJ helps us see not just how we shape technologies but how they are re-shaping us.
They help organizations increase their Digital Fluency in preparation for future technologies, attending not just to tools but also the thinking, skills, data, and business models which comprise new value creation.
The author of the Causeit digitalfluency.guide, MJ's work focuses on raising the lowest common denominator of Digital Fluency for individuals, teams, and entire organizations. Since founding Causeit, Inc. in 2006, MJ has shifted thinking for hundreds of global enterprises, including NTT, Accenture, Televisa, Volkswagen, the Gates Foundation, SWIFT, and several major financial and media companies, raising Digital Fluency among hundreds of thousands of professionals.
MJ is an Accenture Tech Vision Advisory board member and Lewis & Clark College alum.