No one in the world feels fully prepared for AI right now. And yet, cohort after cohort, participants engaged with hard questions, challenged AI outputs, flagged hallucinations, and pushed back when something felt off.
There’s plenty there not to like: alienation from the human affectations that make us feel human, hallucinations, environmental harms, the fact that it’s basically Skynet dressed up like Inspector Gadget.
Agents can access their human’s personal information, social media, banks, and anything else tied to them, allowing the bot to impersonate the person and make (human) life-changing decisions. This can very easily go wrong…
Many people tend to assume AI thinks similarly to a human. While its outputs may be reminiscent of how a human expresses thoughts, AI is mostly predictive text and does not actually understand what it is doing.
“Overall, this panel was a demonstration of what happens when the people most affected by extractionism are allowed to define the rules, the pace, and the limits.”
What does harmony look like when humans mediate it through machines?
Wanting to learn about and make the world better comes from our experience, but the work to do those things doesn’t always need a direct connection to that primary motivation, as we know all too well. Some of that work can be delegated to those who don’t share the vision, and this is where AI…
Hiring in AI’s next phase means sifting for moral judgement, not just tech-happy tool use.
With the residue of uncertainty…, I am trying to give myself a little bit more credit for what I have achieved.