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AI Decision-Making: Countering the Outsourcing Concerns

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11 June 2023 20h30

AI doomers are quick to point out that AI is the only tech humans have developed that can make decisions. How do we counter the argument that outsourcing our decisions is bad for humanity? (FYI, an AI made the attached picture of an AI making decisions).

Ableism in AI Discourse: Critiquing Blindness Metaphors

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11 June 2023 20h25

In case it isn't obvious why this is ableism — it's equating blindness with lack of knowledge or inability to know. This is harmful and detracts from the point.

Machine Intelligence Political Deployment Society Blindness Concern

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11 June 2023 20h22

So it's really a shame that the article ends like this: "It is not AI but our sense of fatalism and our blindness to the way human societies are already deploying machine intelligence for political ends that should most worry us." There's no call to use "blindness" there. >>

Moral Outsourcing: Removing Humans From AI Accountability

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11 June 2023 20h21

"Too often when we talk of the “problem” of AI, we remove the human from the picture. We practise a form of what the social scientist and tech developer Rumman Chowdhury calls “moral outsourcing”: blaming machines for human decisions." >>

Digital Panopticon: AI Systems Require Human Accountability

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11 June 2023 20h21

"We have stumbled into a digital panopticon almost without realising it. Yet to suggest we live in a world shaped by AI is to misplace the problem. There is no machine without a human, and nor is there likely to be." >>

False arrests and facial recognition: AI ethics debate gap

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11 June 2023 20h20

"[False arrests w/face rec tech] should be at the heart of one of the most urgent contemporary debates: that of artificial intelligence and the dangers it poses. That it is not, and that so few recognise it as significant, shows how warped has become the discussion of AI," >>

Op-ed critique: ableism and AGI misconceptions in AI discourse

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11 June 2023 20h19

There's a lot I like in this op-ed, but unfortunately it ends with some gratuitous ableism (and also weird remarks about AGI as a "holy grail"). First, the good parts:

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Model Minority Myth Mental Illness Community Impact

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11 June 2023 17h51

Yup. It’s been an 18 year story I’ve been telling since I lost my sister to suicide 5 years after her Harvard MBA. Model minority myth and the stigma of mental illness kills our community but we are useful tools for political agendas.

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Renewable Energy Article Gains Massive Viral Traction

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11 June 2023 17h29

This has become one of the most shared and most discovered by search articles on our site. Could it be because it gives new hope for renewable, democratized power? Thanks to all who have read and shared: