Humane Technology
Ever get the vibe that the vibe is... off ? That’s because Spotify is filling them with “ghost artists”—fake musicians producing cheap, generic tracks — stock music that they can stuff into playlists as a way to prevent paying higher royalties.5 These songs, often created by stock music companies like Epidemic Sound, are prioritized over real... See more
kate ellen • Ghosting Spotify: A How-To Guide
- The six logics of technocolonialism: Technocolonialism is driven by six key logics which underpin the analytical framework of Mirca’s work. These are the logic of humanitarian accountability, the logic of audit, the logic of capitalism, the logic of solutionism, the logic of securitisation, and the logic of resistance.
- AI and the logic of
Technocolonialism in the age of Humanitarian AI - MERL Tech
The conduit metaphor and prompt engineering as a paradigm are based on two fundamental assumptions: that people have a specific meaning in mind and that it's one person's responsibility to put that meaning into words to impart to the other. Neither of these aligns with the primary way in which people engage in language interactions. Instead, people... See more
Michal Lahav • From Prompt Engineering to Collaborating: A Human-Centered ...
Beatrix law says rather than hurting critical thinking, if prompts are used to help the user parse out the directive they can improve critical thinking, metacognition, and decision making. She reponds to Lee et al (2025) finding that AI hurts critical thinking by saying that it actually redistributes critical thinking to the strategic part of the effort.
Should such detailed advice be available worldwide to anyone who wants it? I would lean towards no. And while I think Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are all doing a good job so far at checking for this capability and planning openly for how they’ll react when they find it, it’s utterly bizarre to me that every AI lab will just decide individually... See more
Bryan Walsh • The AI that apparently wants Elon Musk to die
Incredible reading list on frameworks for thinking about ai