Digital Etiquette in an AI Era

For years, digital etiquette was about how humans treated each other online. Don’t secretly record people. Ask before sharing. Credit creators. Respect boundaries.

Then AI quietly entered every room.

From tools that listen, watch, summarize, and remember, to systems that generate content, impersonate voices, and blur authorship and consent, the social rules we relied on are no longer sufficient. AI didn’t just add new tools. It destabilized the norms themselves.

In this fireside chat, we’ll explore what digital etiquette looks like after AI, when non-human actors are embedded in our conversations, workflows, and relationships. Together, we’ll unpack the real risks hiding behind convenience, and how well-intentioned use can still cross ethical lines without clear norms.

• Using the AI TLC framework (Transparency, Literacy, and Consent), we’ll discuss:
• Where AI quietly breaks long-standing expectations around privacy and trust
• How disclosure, authorship, and sincerity change when AI is involved
• Why “legal” doesn’t always mean ethical
• What informed consent looks like when data, likeness, and labor are at stake

This isn’t a talk about banning tools or shaming usage. It’s about building shared language and expectations for using AI in ways that remain respectful, professional, and human.

Join Teighe Thorsen and Ben Durham for a thoughtful, practical conversation about how we treat each other when AI is part of everything.