Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto as Redaction Poetry
Redaction poetry transformation of Marc Andreessen's hypercapitalist anti-regulation anti-ethics growth-obsessed Techno-Optimist Manifesto
TESCREALism: The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares
To understand the divide between AI boosters and doomers, one must unpack their common origins in a bundle of ideologies known as TESCREAL.
At the heart of TESCREALism is a “techno-utopian” vision of the future. It anticipates a time when advanced technologies enable humanity to accomplish things like: producing radical abundance, reengineering ourselves, becoming immortal, colonizing the universe and creating a sprawling “post-human” civilization among the stars full of trillions and trillions of people. The most straightforward way to realize this utopia is by building superintelligent AGI.
Colonialism & AI / a report by Accessible AI
Why transformative AI is really, really hard to achieve
A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments
Zach Blas
On artist Zach Blas's wide-ranging practice that scrutinizes the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them.Za...
Underutilized.
Generative AI is just Big Data 2.0.
The Hypothetical Image
The Aestheticization of Algorithmic Ideologies
The stupidity of AI
The long read: Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous
AI Kryptonite: Why Artificial Intelligence Can't Handle Hands - Decrypt
Artificial Intelligence struggles to created perfect hands. The reasons behind this are both technical and biological.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI
Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.
Press freedom means controlling the language of AI
Generative AI systems act like "stochastic parrots," using statistical models to guess word orders and pixel placements. That's incompatible with a free press that commands its own words.
How to Glitch AI - Outland
Prompt-based image generators seem unhackable. But a committed glitch artist can still instigate interventions.
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Unmasking AI Book | Author Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Turk Wars: How AI Threatens the Workers Who Fuel It (SSIR)
The much-hyped AI tools of the future are being built by a globally dispersed army of data workers.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence a Collection of Critical Essays » CHAPTER 4:AI Harms
TOOLKIT - GROUND WORK
The Long History of Algorithmic Fairness | Phenomenal World
Are algorithms biased? Rodrigo Ochigame traces newfound interest in this question back to the early attempts to formalize notions of fair decision making.
Introducing The Foundation Model Transparency Index
A new index rates the transparency of 10 foundation model companies and finds them lacking.
Shining a Light on “Shadow Prompting”
We must resist normalizing opacity in the design of generative AI systems, says Eryk Salvaggio.
Data Segregation and Algorithmic Amplification: A Conversation with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI). – Quinta’s weblog
How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.
Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age
He insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him?
Person, Thing, Robot
Why robots defy our existing moral and legal categories and how to revolutionize the way we think about them.Robots are a curious sort of thing. On the one h...
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2023): Minor Tech | A Peer-Reviewed Journal About
Tsukumogami
pWe are at the beginning of an artificial intelligence revolution that has the potential to shift our perspectives on several fronts, including on the moral worth of artificially intelligent objects. Such shifts might be especially poignant when considering research aiming to create AI systems empathetic to human needs for, among other contexts, application in healthcare. This comic uses the ancient Japanese folklore of Tsukumogami, tools that have acquired souls, to invite readers to meditate on their relationship between the inanimate object and the animate subject./p
Duke University Press - Critical AI
Duke University Press - Critical AI