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AI & Data Ethics

A site that advocates responsible technology should be able to answer, precisely, how it uses AI and data itself. This is that answer.

Last updated: July 2026

1. Where AI is used on this site

  • Editorial tag suggestions: When the editorial team catalogs a submitted resource, an AI assistant (Anthropic's Claude) may suggest taxonomy tags from the submission's title and description. A person reviews every suggestion; nothing is published on an AI's judgment alone.
  • Resource search: Published resource descriptions are indexed with an open-source embedding model that runs on this site's own infrastructure. No external AI service receives search queries or visitor data.

2. Where AI is not used

  • No AI is applied to visitor data. Browsing behavior, consent records, and form contents are never sent to an AI system.
  • No profiling, scoring, or automated decision-making about any person.
  • No AI-generated articles or resources presented as editorial content. Curation is human.
  • No training: data from this site is not used to train AI models.

3. Data handling around AI

  • Only content submitted for publication (a resource's title, description, and link) is ever shared with an external AI provider, and only for the editorial assistance described above.
  • Submitter contact details (email addresses, LinkedIn profiles) and review notes are deliberately excluded from the search index and from anything sent to AI providers. This exclusion is a tested control, not a policy hope.

4. The standard this site holds itself to

Responsible AgeTech asks builders of technology for older adults to be transparent about where AI sits in their products, to keep humans accountable for consequential decisions, and to minimize the data they touch. This page exists so the same questions asked of others can be answered here, specifically and verifiably. When the site's own use of AI changes, this statement changes first. Questions: info@responsible-agetech.org.