What's Your Spark? | Paths of Curiosity in an AI World

Six people work at very different intersections of AI, power, and justice. A constitutional lawyer, a labor researcher, a legal technologist, a cultural critic, a civil rights attorney, and an entrepreneur rebuilding the legal profession.

This short quiz will help you figure out which of their paths might spark something in you — and what concrete next step makes sense for where you are right now.

Question 1 of 5

What gets under your skin most?

Injustice. When you see systems harming people who are already vulnerable — and nobody's doing anything about it. Inequity in the system. When rules are broken and nobody's holding powerful people accountable. Exploitation. When companies abuse power over people who depend on them, especially workers with no other options. Manipulation. When powerful people shape what others believe without their knowledge or consent. Broken systems. When institutions are failing and need to be rebuilt from the ground up.

Question 2 of 5

How do you actually make change happen?

Through law & courts. You believe the system can be fixed if you hold people accountable and argue your case well. Through evidence. You document what's really happening, publish it, and let the facts speak for themselves. Through people. You organize communities, build collective power, use art and storytelling to help people see their own strength. Through shifting how people think. You change narratives, expose what's hidden, help people see systems differently. By building something new. Old ways aren't working — you'd rather design from scratch than try to fix what's broken.

Question 3 of 5

What kind of work energizes you?

Being in community. Working alongside people experiencing harm, building trust, making them feel heard. Working through arguments. Researching, writing, building airtight cases, winning in court. Investigating & interviewing. Talking to real people, documenting their experiences, finding patterns nobody else sees. Understanding systems deeply. Studying how power works, what histories matter, whose voices are missing. Solving practical problems. Building tools, systems, processes that actually work and help people move forward.

Question 4 of 5

If you had to pick one skill to develop, it'd be...

Storytelling & narrative. Helping people feel and understand through stories, not just facts. Legal reasoning & writing. Building arguments that hold up in any setting, especially courts. Research & critical analysis. Digging into data, asking sharp questions, knowing what matters. Systems thinking. Understanding how everything connects, what gets built into code and institutions. Design & innovation. Imagining what could work differently, building prototypes, iterating fast.

Question 5 of 5

What feels like your most urgent next step?

Get closer to the people doing this work. Volunteer, intern, shadow someone, build relationships. Understand the law & courts better. Read cases, study constitutional law, understand how the system works. Learn to document & analyze. Take a research class, learn statistics, interview people systematically. Travel or study differently. Read widely, talk to people from different backgrounds, think bigger. Build something. Take a coding class, design a system, start a project, learn by doing.