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Helen & Dave Edwards: Becoming Synthetic
A lecture on Becoming Synthetic: What AI Is Doing To Us, Not Just For Us.
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We are dedicated to unraveling the profound impact of AI on our society, communities, workplaces, and personal lives. To truly grasp this transformation, our approach is rooted in engaging with core concepts such as critical thinking, logical analysis, and the scrutiny of underlying assumptions, principles that are essential in the realm of philosophical inquiry.
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Making better decisions means banishing so-so AI
Now that more machine learning-based AI has been deployed in more places, human skills are being replaced in finer slices with new automation technologies. What has been observed in traditional blue collar work is that not all AI is good enough to increase the value of the output.
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AI as a cognitive crutch
How AI could help our reasoning when it's most flawed: aka when we're subject to cognitive biases.
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Help me decide v decide for me
Resolving a fundamental incompatibility with AI in human decision-making
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There’s no universal human reaction to AI
Most decisions and most deciders are hybrids. Some machine, some human. The trick is to imagine all the ways that humans figure out ways around, over, and through the machine when what they really want is to make the decision themselves even if it means sacrificing accuracy.
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AI's strange effects on intuition
Everyone likes to follow their intuition because it’s the ultimate act of trusting oneself.
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Workplace spyware when everyone works from home
WFH surveillance is growing but employers need to move on.
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Digital surveillance may be inevitable
The math of COVID-19 may mean some level of opt-in tracking is vital to stop repeated outbreaks
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Can AI help us think better now?
Humans think in terms of 1,2,3,4 lots and lots, while machines think in billions.
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The Black Mirror of Clearview AI
If Clearview is normalized, we're not who we think (or hope) we are.
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Ding-Dong, It's Surveillance!
Why we need to keep talking about Ring and "plug-in surveillance."
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Putting brakes on facial recognition & surveillance
How should we think about this super-convenient yet dystopian tech?
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Machine employees in government
What does it mean if AI is doing the job of government employees?