The debt is incurred by deploying organizations but paid by users, patients, and citizens, making it an AI ethics problem¶
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q1 i? An asymmetry exists between who creates agentic literacy debt (deploying organizations) and who pays for it (users, patients, consumers, citizens). → Nama 2026
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Nama 2026¶
Nama, R. (2026). Agentic Literacy Debt: A Structural Problem the AI Literacy Field Has Not Yet Named. Author's accepted manuscript, AI and Ethics (Springer Nature). https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27396 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.27396
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Conceptual argument extending Petrozzino's observation that those who incur ethical debt differ from those who pay for it. The author argues this asymmetry is "what makes agentic literacy debt an AI ethics problem rather than merely an educational one." No data reported.
"Critically, the debt is not borne by the organizations that incur it. It is paid by the users, patients, consumers, and citizens the agents act upon."
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The debt is incurred by deploying organizations but paid by users, patients, and citizens, making it an AI ethics problem |
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The debt is incurred by deploying organizations but paid by users, patients, and citizens, making it an AI ethics problem |
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