Humane Tech
Content and projects that inspire the creation of technology that treats attention and intention as sacred, protects well-being, and builds our collective capacity to address humanity’s most urgent challenges
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Humane Tech
Technologies shape and are shaped by society. They are neither the problem nor the solution.
LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
L. M. Sacasastheconvivialsociety.substack.com
If you know to look, you can feel the difference between software crafted with care for its users and systems of vacuous tradition that just happen to be good at producing the vapid fodder of convenience.
Robin Berjon • Retrofuturism
What bothers me most about the AI art situation is just what a frivolous use technological expertise it is. There are so many tedious, grueling, and dangerous jobs that could have been eliminated. Instead they’re attempting to automate the most basic expressions of humanity.
nametwitter.comWe are not against algorithms. We’ll enthusiastically use algorithms, or AI, or any other technology we can get our hands on, as long as we can use them to serve the human ends that we care about.
Chris Best • An Algorithm for Quality
technology is not good or bad - it just is. the values we embed into the technologies we build are what ultimately matter.
To build the next big search engine simply focus on people.
It’s why people add “reddit” to their queries and prefer to search social — we want to see results from humans, not soulless SEO farms.
Amjad Masadtwitter.com