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From our director: “All machines, even highly intelligent machines, have difficulty dealing with the unexpected person and the unruly parts of our lives.”

From our director: “Our most reliable indicator of progress is that people who have been marginalized or excluded by the system are faring better. The only way to be sure of this is to ensure they are full participants in the design decisions from the start.”

From our director: “Dealing with a world that is not designed for you can be a frustrating, even soul-crushing, experience. Simple things like eating, joining a conversation … become difficult, if not impossible, activities.”

From our director: “Our attention has become one of the most fought over commodities. As the things that demand our attention proliferate, our self-determination and the quality of what we attend to tends to deteriorate.”

From our director: “We hope you will join us in fighting the abysmal unemployment and underemployment rate of disabled people who are ready to work.”

From our director: “With the proliferation of misinformation, disinformation and manipulative half-truths, we have felt the need to double down on, and defend, truth. Recognizing lies is critical to our survival.”

From our director: “Because we have created artificial intelligence in our image, it has only amplified, accelerated, and automated our deficient form of intelligence.”

From our director: “Even if governments are willing to accept the collateral damage of technological progress; diversity and difference are other casualties. Without them we have monocultures.”

From our director: “Difference expands our strengths, builds out the perspectives to recognize potential risks, and provides a richer set of choices when the world acts in unexpected ways.”

Read the July 2021 edition of We Count's monthly newsletter.