Ethical Systems & Trust Architect
I help organizations design, evaluate, and govern high-stakes socio-technical systems such as AI models, platforms, and institutions, so they earn trust, reduce harm, and measurably improve long-term human well-being.
Focus areas: Trust & Safety • Socio-technical Risk • Responsible AI • Policy & Governance • Fairness & Robustness • Well-being Measurement
What I Do
I translate rigorous ethical theory into decision-ready tools that hold up under real-world complexity: uneven power, feedback loops, incentives, and long-tail edge cases.
• Build Responsible AI / Trust & Safety frameworks
I develop evaluation criteria, harm taxonomies, governance guardrails, and clear “red-line” constraints so teams can ship systems that are safer, more accountable, and more humane.
• Model systemic risk in socio-technical ecosystems
I analyze how incentives and feedback loops shape outcomes across scales (individual → community → institution), helping teams anticipate downstream harms and design interventions that improve ecosystem health.
• Make values measurable (without flattening them)
I create measurement-minded ethical wayfinding tools: compasses, scorecards, and metrics for tracking dignity, agency, and flourishing over time, so values can guide iteration rather than living in slide decks.
Email: ssanchezb1@gmail.com
Featured Work
• Ethical Field Theory: Ethics as Dynamic Systems, Not Checklists
A field-theoretic model of ethical dynamics that treats rightness, goodness, and virtue as coupled dimensions, allowing for effective diagnosing of how systems amplify harm and support well-being.
• Ethosystems: AI & Platforms in Full Human Context
A systems framework that treats AI as embedded in psycho-bio-social, economic, political, and ecological environments, designed to reveal hidden leverage points for safer deployment and healthier communities.
• Ethical Swampland & Symmetry-Based Objectivity
A principled approach to fairness and objectivity based on invariance under perspective shifts that generates “swampland” constraints that identify high-performing system designs that should never be built or shipped.
• Measurement-Minded Ethical Wayfinding
A design-driven approach to operationalizing ethical reflection, turning dignity, agency, and flourishing into practical compasses and metrics that teams can test, iterate, and improve over time.