In January 2021, we launched ‘A New AI Lexicon:’ a call for contributions to generate alternate narratives, positionalities, and understandings to the better known and widely circulated ways of talking about AI.
Sonja Rattay on OpenAI & Ethics / Commercial Success
As a critical researcher of AI myself and experience as entrepreneur I know how hard it is to navigate the trade offs between surviving in the market and being…
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.
On artist Zach Blas's wide-ranging practice that scrutinizes the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them.Za...
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
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.
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.