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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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...
AI Doesn’t “Think” or “Reason”: So Why Does it Sound So Confident?
“What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and...
Neural Networks Aren’t Brains: A Primer for Behavioral Scientists
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Waking Up in a Different Simulation
The flicker is gone. This time, you don’t respawn in a game world. Instead, code rains down the...
Talking to Machines — The Art and Science of Prompting GenAI Tools
The Portal Opens Again. The world shimmers into focus. A console appears at the center of the map—a glowing interface, waiting for your input. The next...
AI Can Help—But it Can Also Harm: Spotting Risks Before They Happen
The screen glitches. Warning sirens hum. A new level of the quest renders, but this time the colors are off—shadows linger at the edges of...
Jobs, Justice, and GPT — Why Behavior Analysts Should Care About (and Help Shape) AI’s Impact
The portal flickers again. The scene resolves into a vast, neon-lit cityscape: billboards flicker with “Now Hiring (AI-Friendly Skills Only),” drones hum overhead delivering packages,...
Ethics at the Edge — Navigating AI Dilemmas in a Changing World
The portal flickers again. This time, the terrain ahead isn’t just unknown—it’s unstable. Warnings blink on the edges of the screen. You’ve entered a level...
How Data Shapes Behavior... And AI, Too
The portal flickers. This time, a vast archive loads before you—rows of past behaviors, datasets, and digital trails stretching across time. Welcome to the domain...
