J. Danielle

"Humans have a well-documented tendency, called automation bias, to accept an algorithm’s recommendations even if it contradicts their own expertise, he said. This bias could cause doctors to be less critical while reviewing A.I.-generated drafts, potentially allowing dangerous errors to reach patients."

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Before we had vibes, we had the chillier, more Germanic zeitgeist. Both tap into our appetite for locating our lives within a bigger picture. But vibes are crowd-sourced and ground-up, where the zeitgeist was ordained by experts, a trickle-down form of cultural economics.

Tippett:

What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?

O’Donohue:

I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.

Trend brain, as I call it, encourages us to simplify everything online into something either buyable, understandable, or moral (and therefore worthy of consumption). We may tire of trend talk, but there is a devout certainty to the speed at which they’re cycled through. There are more choices than ever today, but seemingly less authority as to what... See more