The Tech Humanist Manifesto
“Instead of building machines to isolate us from the bleak future we have foretold for ourselves, I would rather spend my energy trying to build the world I actually want to live in. A world that places people above profit, that looks at the promises of automation and artificial intelligence and sees leisure and self-actualization, not increasingly
... See moreWhat we are abdicating, in the end, is our duty to create meaning from our empirical observations—to define for ourselves what constitutes justice, and morality, and quality of life—a task we forfeit each time we forget that meaning is an implicitly human category that cannot be reduced to quantification. To forget this truth is to use our tools to
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