The ONLY way through our planetary crisis is virtue ethics ensconced in law and regulation. Big or small government, allocation of resources either goes to the few or many. The Planet is prioritized FIRST in design or “innovation” as framed in exponential growth economics.
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Challenging Neoclassical Economics Logic in AI Ethics
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It’s also VERY easy to justify greed when prioritizing neo-classical (aka metaphorical) rationality, ESP with economics. PLEASE read the first chapter of @KateRaworth
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Kindness and Care as Essential Human Needs in AI Ethics
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Also – kindness for self and others ultimately is about the human, physiological need for care. This is positive psychology, an empirical science. Ignoring this to prioritize rationality, only Western ideals of democracy deny non western realities and mental health overall.
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Beyond Rationality: Emotions and Relations in AI Development
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Western “enlightenment” thinking that only values rationality (or rationality above all) denies the relational and emotional side of humans that is inherently part of who we are. We are not machines and ignoring our emotions etc hurts AI and tech in general.
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Ubuntu Ethics and Non-Western AI Inclusivity Perspectives
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Unless Generative AI discussions immediately include non-western thinking and people as referenced in the critically important work of @sabelonow and his seminal notion of the applied aspects of “relationality” in Ubuntu ethics, NO AI is truly “autonomous” or inclusive.
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Decolonizing AI Ethics: Non-Western Traditions in Modern Systems
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Would love the AI ethics community to discuss issues of decolonization and the lack of non-Western ethical traditions in a majority of "modern" AI. Here's a chapter from Ethically Aligned Design on "Classical Ethics" that talks about these issues: https://
standards.ieee.org/wp-content/upl
oads/import/documents/other/ead1e_classical_ethics.pdf
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AI Will First Replace Corporate Middle Managers With Bullshit Jobs
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Je répète : les premiers remplacés par l'IA seront les cadres des grands groupes parce que la plupart ont un bullshit job. https://
phonandroid.com/chatgpt-le-pat
ron-dopenai-confirme-que-lia-va-voler-votre-emploi-et-il-sen-excuse.html
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How Office Spaces Evolved Across the Past Century
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How offices looked in each decade of the past hundred years https://
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Taylor Swift as the LLM of Regular People: Tech Bubble Observation
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Sitting at a neighborhood sushi bar in SF, where every other regular is not a tech person. Conclusion? Taylor Swift is the LLM of regular people. Bubble!!
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ChatGPT Excluding Non-English Languages From AI Revolution
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#ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the #AI Revolution https://
bit.ly/3C0Bdo2 via @WIRED #ethics