Chiron: The AI Literacy Series for ABA Professionals
A weekly newsletter exploring how ABA professionals can develop essential AI literacy skills to ensure ethical and effective practice in a rapidly changing field.
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Whose Values? Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in AI-Supported Decisions
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If you’ve worked in applied behavior analysis (ABA) long enough, you’ve seen this movie before. A tool is introduced to “increase efficiency.” A metric...
Data Bias Is Real: What That Means for Outcomes and Equity
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The Glass Spheres Problem
In Minority Report, the precogs don’t make arrests.
They don’t issue warrants.
They don’t decide who is guilty.
They generate...
AI in Today’s ABA: What’s Safe to Automate and What Stays 100% Human
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If you’re a BCBA, BCaBA, or RBT, you’re already working with artificial intelligence (AI) in applied behavior analysis (ABA), whether your org has an...
When AI Breaks Trust: Lessons from the LAUSD Hiring Scandal
“You don’t just build AI. You build trust.”
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Meet, Ed
In March 2024, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced a bold, high-profile...
Critiquing the Machine: Teaching Your Team to Evaluate AI Like Scientists
The green code of The Matrix fades. In its place: a sterile chamber, glass spheres pulsing with future possibilities. Each one is a prediction that...
Why Models Matter: Behavior Analysts and the Math Behind AI
We’re borrowing the cadence of Morpheus here; it’s not an actual quote, but the kind of line he’d deliver if he were teaching prompt engineering....
Prompt Engineering 101: Helping AI Help You
We’re borrowing the cadence of Morpheus here; it’s not an actual quote, but the kind of line he’d deliver if he were teaching prompt engineering....
When AI Gets It Wrong: Case Examples of Harm and How to Prevent It
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Prologue: “What If This Saves Us?”
Marissa, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, sat at her desk after another 10-hour day. Her clinic served 87...
The Ripple Effect: How AI Changes the Systems We Work In
“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged.” —Morpheus, That Matrix, 1999
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Changing the Contingencies That Shape Our...
Bias, Privacy, and Consent: The Ethics of AI in Behavior Analysis
Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon. It’s here. And for those of us in applied behavior analysis (ABA), it’s arriving embedded in everything...
From Raw Data to AI Decisions: Understanding the AI Pipeline
The room is white—impossibly white. Racks glide past on silent rails: session notes, CSV exports, video frames, time-stamped events. A cable snakes from the ceiling...
What Can AI Do in ABA Today? And, What Should it Never Do?
Racks of objects filled the white void. Neo turned slowly. “This… this isn’t real?”
Morpheus smiled. “What is real? How do you define real? The...
