Yes, but that doesn't mean "Teaching this knowledge requires you to engage with its politics" is incorrect. If you choose to ignore all the context and history behind an idea when teaching it, you *are* engaging in politics in that choice.
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Rethinking Luddite History in AI and Technology Debates
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jfc you really believe this? and you still think "luddite" is a phrase that can be bandied around like that? you should learn some history. and political science.
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Medicine and Technology Are Necessarily Political Issues
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These things are necessarily political — it's not a choice. E.g. consider medicine, as discussed here by @math_rachel (which also touches on science more generally):
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Replika Software Failures: User Safety and Reliability Concerns
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@replika What does it mean when I ask the software to not heart my responses and it immediately does so? What is happening to millions of your users who ask a question with more important ramifications and these simple mistakes happen then?
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Replika anthropomorphism concerns AI ethics community
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Google’s Reflecting India Study Challenges Media Bias Inclusivity
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Meet @k0mal_singh
! A Googler raised in India who led the "Reflecting India Study" at Google Research to challenge biases and inspire inclusive media on a global scale: https://
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Google’s AI Race Loss Due to Work-Life Balance Priority
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Google is losing the AI race because it decided that work-life balance was more important than winning. (Eric Schmidt)
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AI Risks: Discrimination, Privacy Breaches, and Cyberattacks Analysis
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Four insights from this analysis (2/2): Several subdomains, such as "Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation" (mentioned in 63% of documents), "Compromise of privacy" (61%), and "Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harm" (54%) are frequently discussed.