The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

So I think what happens over time, then, is we lose the habit of making ourselves who we are, of consciously choosing to become certain sorts of people, and instead we become whomever the algorithm automates us to be.

Aristotle, who focused on the fact that virtues must be cultivated through conscious effort and habit—that we learn to be honest, for example, by building up a pattern of telling the truth. And the more we tell the truth, the better we get at telling the truth, the better we know when to do it and how to do it right—because there are certain ways o... See more

these AI tools that are built to generate reflections of human intelligence don’t reflect all of us . They don’t reflect all of society, because the training data that are used to produce these mirror images are like the light falling on a mirror. And a mirror can only reflect the light that reaches it. It can’t reflect the light that falls outside... See more