How to Survive AI
Let me answer your implicit complaint: “The Turing Test will be eventually passed.” That’s right (in some settings, Turing’s original prediction has been already achieved), but the truth is that any human relationship — even digital ones, even those not especially intimate like the ones between writers and readers (I love you, though) — requires mu... See more
How to Survive as a Human Creator in the AI Era
Yet, the hidden machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search platforms are engineered to exploit our primal instincts for validation, status, and mimetic desires (adopting or pursuing preferences and aspirations based on the influence of others rather than our intrinsic motivations), morphing into a manipulative force that feeds ... See more
André Chaperon
If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr
In the Prologue to The Human Condition, with the promise that automation would empty the factories, Hannah Arendt worried that “it is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the fetters of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaninfgul activities for the sake of which this freedom would deser
... See moretheconvivialsociety.substack.com • Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
All six said that Lavender had played a central role in the war, processing masses of data to rapidly identify potential “junior” operatives to target. Four of the sources said that, at one stage early in the war, Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men who had been linked by the AI system to Hamas or PIJ.
Lavender was developed by the Isr... See more
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Harry Davies • ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets
We have a chance to do work we’re proud of, and to do it for people who care. And maybe we can do it in a way that will lead them to tell the others. Traffic from an algorithm isn’t the point, it’s a random bonus.
No sense being a puppet, especially if you can’t be sure who is pulling the strings or why.
Seth Godin • You Can’t Beat the Algorithm
The message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.
When AI people talk about labour, they tend to frame jobs as sets of tasks, rather than sets of responsibilities.
I I really think that creativity is going to become a lot more important and surprise and personality and originality like
that's the premium that will'll be placed on that is going to like change dramatically in the coming years and so whatever mindset that I carried around like quantity is is so not going to serve me that that I am I I find that a
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