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
the honesty here is breathtaking - from the founder of daylight.computer
“One of the tragedies of doing humane tech is you lose the humanity in the process of surviving the world, of trying to build something, of trying to get it funded”
This isn’t to say the digital won’t remain, or even that it won’t remain the primary medium. Rather, I think there are going to be more efforts to make the digital experience more human, to shift our relationships with it. Some say AI threatens this, I say it only reinforces it: nobody, really, likes AI, and our general distaste for it is going to... See more
via Magdalene Taylor
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.
How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios
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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.comwe should directly tie the success of our technologies to how much they enable our humanity (as in, our positive human characteristics), and use this criteria to evaluate past, present and future technologies.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
