Generative AI closes off a better future
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Generative AI closes off a better future
In a digitally decentralized world where generative AI can lower the barriers of creation even farther than ever before, and bots can be trained under the perspective of your choosing, an already fractured reality becomes at risk for disintegration. Or, as science-fiction writer and professional futurist Madeline Ashby told us in a recent interview... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Keely Adler added
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt
... See moreTed Chiang • Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
On another, we might peer into the machine itself. After all, as it stands today, one of AI’s greatest strengths is in highlighting its own weaknesses (and thereby, illuminating those qualities that we’re uniquely suited to as living, breathing thinkers and makers). We might consider our imagination a strength, or our capacity for recursive thought... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Keely Adler added
I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statement displays the narrative wei
... See moreTFSX • The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
In the words of speculative fiction writer Ursula Le Guin: ‘As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.’
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Keely Adler added
“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
Alternative Prosperity: Reframing The "Good Life"
alexi gunner added
The problem is the gulf between this restless, fascinating technological imagination and the much more limited imagination that exists in relation to so much else. It’s not that alternative futures are absent.21 It’s just that the scientific side of imagination is far more prominent, far better funded and inevitably far less sensitive to the precar
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Keely Adler added
the scientific and technological imagination means very little absent an active social and human imagination [e.g., when tech gets it wrong - apple, google ads]