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the people who curate the Internet who have a point of view will actually become the centers of attention, and you cannot replace that with AI. You cannot replace that curator function or that guiding function that we've always looked to other individuals to do.
-Nilay Patel on Ezra Klein
knew when I saw those statistics that the mythology around Silicon Valley was basically a lie, because ingenuity, hard work, hustle, grit, and innovation aren’t traits that are prevalent only in the straight White male population.
Arlan Hamilton • It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage
Buolamwini and Gebru’s work highlights the skepticism we ought to feel when a company announces that their system is, say, “99% accurate”: Accurate on what? Accurate for whom?
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Humans are capable of great empathy and of horrifying callousness and violence. We have evolved this way because it has been in our interest to both cooperate within our own groups and compete with others. Our empathy is therefore largely limited to those whom we see as members of our own tribe and our callous disregard and violence is reserved for
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At a societal level, it’s a case of bias-laundering through technology
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
“Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism,”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
On the Generation of Animals.
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Coming Wave: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider
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