Humane Technology

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

The seven principles of data feminism are as follows:

• Examine power. Data feminism begins by analysing how power operates in the world.


• Challenge power. Data feminism commits to challenging unequal power structures and working toward justice.


• Elevate emotion and embodiment. Data feminism teaches us to value multiple forms of knowledge, including

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LLMs lack the ability to understand a question or experience from different points of view, though they can, if prompted, generate a simulacrum of differential perspectives. Here’s Breen:

The issue is that generative AI systems don’t want messy perspective jumps. They want the median, the average, the most widely-approved of viewpoint on an issue, a

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where AI may hit an unexpected wall is any domain which depends upon some combination of intuition, physical presence, and illegible data .

Like, say, history.

most often, people will begin engaging with all kinds of technology, including GenAI, before they know exactly what they want and need—even before having a specific meaning in mind.

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

Moving beyond prompting is vital for successful end-user adoption of AI. As systems graduate from labs to the open world, improvements in human-AI interaction paradigms are central to ensuring that AI is useful, usable, and safe.