Humane Technology
View of Automated decision-making as domination
firstmonday.orgBurell (2020) uses Iris Marion Young’s work to argue that instead of thinking of injustice as a lack of fairness, which leads to more precise codes, such as surveilance, we should use oppression and dominion concepts to frame injustice which then puts responsibility on to those that write the code to or use the code to ask different more difficult questions about values. “Rather than a relentless drive to automate and replace humans, we can approach machine learning lookingfor the sorts of opportunities that augment humans, extending their agency” “In considering the possibilities beyond justice-as-distributive-fairness I have made the case that defining justice based on what can be accomplished technically (what can be formalized in equations or implemented in code) gets the proper formulation backwards (Selbst, et al., 2019). Problem definition must not be circumscribed by what can be managed through technical implementations and solutions. Rather we should be asking more fundamental questions. What is ‘the good life’ (Boenig-Liptsin, 2022; Gandy, 2016),what is our duty to each other (Birhane, 2021; Wodajo and Ebert, 2021), what desired qualities of human experience, such as dignity, does justice uphold (Anderson, 1999; Hodson, 2001; Kaminski, 2019) and what is justice?” (From conclusion)
In the age of AI, it’s more important than ever that we take pleasure in thinking. The purpose of AI is to replace thought. Instead of trying to become more productive, students need to ask themselves questions like: What are the dangers of my interactions with technology? What’s happening to my attention span? How much of what you’ve just written ... See more
ia.net • Design as Thought: Philosophy in Times of Artificial Intelligence
You see — if software is to have soul, it must feel more like the world around it. Which is the biggest clue of all that feeling is what’s missing from today’s software. Because the value of the tools, objects, and artworks that we as humans have surrounded ourselves with for thousands of years goes so far beyond their functionality. In many ways,
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- 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 technocolo
Technocolonialism in the age of Humanitarian AI - MERL Tech
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will curate sources and ideas and let AI handle execution or assembly. Honing an ability to curate and arrange these sources will cultivate depth and meaning in your work—tuning the machine to your specifi... See more
Design Literacy
Rediscovering the ritual technology of the placebo effect in analytical psychology - PubMed
Erik Goodwynpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov