Field Notes on Ethical AI
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Wanted: Nonprofit Staff Who Can Wrangle AI (and Still Care About People)
Hiring in AI’s next phase means sifting for moral judgement, not just tech-happy tool use.
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AI Found Thousands of Hidden Rivers! Why It Matters for Africa’s Future
Productive and enjoyable to actually get to read about positive ways that my bread and butter (AI) exists in the world.
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Google’s “Guided Learning” has entered the building.
…Children are naturally curious and want to ask more questions and to take ownership of knowledge.
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Hallucinating or Elucidating? AI’s Strange, Wrong, Hyperreal Honesty
Without knowledge of how to optimize answers for ‘truth,’ they’re modeling what humans do–tell stories, hedge, prevaricate, lie, do bad math,…
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From Remix to Action: Two Ways to Read AI
…These tools have the potential to lower the cost of producing cultural artifacts, thereby increasing humans’ power to create things or…
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Will AI Flatten or Elevate Human Learning?
“While cognitive offloading with AI reduces people’s higher thinking abilities, thoughtful integration of ‘extraheric AI’—which nudges, questions, and challenges users—can substantially…
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AI Made Me Question Everything, So I Built a Course on AI Safety
With the residue of uncertainty…, I am trying to give myself a little bit more credit for what I have achieved.
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Living in Beta: AI for Everyday Expat Life (Part 3)
[Using] AI well isn’t about replacing thinking, it’s about preserving your capacity to think where it matters most.
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Living in Beta: AI for Everyday Expat Life (Part 2)
…a long day of international travel and flight cancellations, trying to figure out what to do with more bags than fit…