Why we should worry less about ‘sentient’ AIs and more about what we’re teaching them | Aeon Videos
“There’s this great essay by Hannah Baer in the latest issue of Artforum, where she unpacks why we are so afraid of AI becoming more intelligent than humans. If you look at this historically, humans have positioned themselves as the most intelligent species, even though that’s not true. As the “most intelligent species,” we’ve used this power as an... See more
Meet Mindy Seu — passerby magazine
If the context of our relationships really matters so much, then it will also matter in our relationships with machine intelligence. Perhaps we should be thinking more carefully about the ecosystem in which we are raising AI, particularly the kind of aggressive, domineering and destructive forms which seem to be proliferating.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
It’s tempting to succumb to the fatalism around AI job theft here. The technology’s loudest cheerleaders are themselves the most eager to cultivate it, encouraging us to surrender to a robotic new dawn, where devoting the time to learn skills, perform tasks or know about anything may as well be considered a thing of the past.
When I lost my job, I learned to code. Now AI doom mongers are trying to scare me all over again | Tristan Cross
instead end up showing how AI will be used for the things that most of us don’t want it to interfere with: our job prospects, our privacy, and experiences and skills that feel uniquely human.