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Emily M. Bender
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Cozy, thought-provoking and extremely well-crafted. Newitz drops you into a richly imagined world with super relatable characters -- a world and characters facing adversity but also full of hope. An excellent read for 2025! |
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1):
"I was a devoted, loving Potterhead for a lot of my childhood (I attended midnight book and movie releases) but I will never again read, watch, or condone any kind of Harry Potter consumption because of the vitriol and hatred that Joanne Rowling conti"
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI:
"A tour de force. Incredibly well-reported by an AI insider with frontrow seats to the drama of one of the world's most consequential companies. The reporting extends far beyond the Valley, to data workers in Kenya and Venezuela, and water rights acti"
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An insider's story about working against the harms of "AI", beautifully told This book takes the reader through Dr. Joy Buolamwini's experience confronting the harms of computer vision (and other "AI"), making the decision to do something about it, an ...more |
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| Read this on what was essentially a dare, and regretted every minute of it. Full of magical thinking about what "AI" can do and all of the hubris, epistemic trespassing, and technochauvinism you'd expect from a Silicon Valley billionaire. ...more | |
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| Ever thought something was kinda off with plans to go to Mars but couldn't quite put your finger on it? Feeling a little squicked out by the way people talk about AGI? This book will give you a very clear idea of why, told with clarity and deep knowl ...more | |
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| A deeply researched, extremely valuable look into the production of so-called "AI" systems from all angles. This book not only brings the reader into the internal workings of OpenAI the company but also into the world of water activists organizing ag ...more | |
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Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future:
"Absolute hogwash. A venture capitalist's fever dream of what AI is and can do. "
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“Oren Etzioni32, then CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, said: Are you worried at all that when you slow things down, while you’re going through that deliberative process, with the best of motivations, that people are dying in cars and people are dying in hospitals, that people are not getting legal representation in the right way? I think one reason for urgency is commercial incentives, but another reason for urgency is an ethical one. While we in Seattle comfortably debate these fine points of the law and these fine points of fairness, people are dying, people are being deported. So yeah, I’m in a rush, because I want to make the world a better place. But in the years since Etzioni made those remarks, we haven’t seen miraculous improvements in highway safety, health outcomes, or the treatment of migrants. Instead, we’ve been subjected to accelerating usage of AI as a pretext to surveil, arrest, and deport people; accelerating environmental impact of data centers to run the AI systems; and hundreds of car crashes, including at least seventeen fatal ones, as innocent bystanders are subjected to informal beta tests of Tesla’s misleadingly advertised “Full Self-Driving” technology.33 If we want innovation that is aimed at something other than profit maximization, we need to shape that innovation via regulation.”
― The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
― The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
“In the vast majority of cases, AI is not going to replace your job. But it will make your job a lot shittier. What actors and writers are fighting for is a future that doesn’t relegate humans to babysitting scriptwriting and acting algorithms, available on call but only paid when the media synthesis machines glitch out. We’re already seeing this in domains as diverse as journalism, legal services, and the taxi industry. While executives suggest that AI is going to be a labor-saving device, in reality it is meant to be a labor-breaking one.”
― The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
― The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
“There are a lot more problems with the idea of alignment. First off, how do they define human values? The Asilomar AI Principles,12 developed at a convening by the Future of Life Institute in 2017, include one that reads, “AI systems should be designed and operated so as to be compatible with ideals of human dignity, rights, freedoms, and cultural diversity.” But “rights” and “freedoms” differ from culture to culture, from group to group, and from person to person. Human values are also not static across time, nor are all groups granted the same dignities in the light of the law and human judgment.”
― The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
― The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
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