artificial intelligence

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/27/2023
  

  The Dangerous Delusion of the Big Data Utopia

  by Jill Lepore

  Why has "data" supplanted metaphysical inquiry, empirical observation, and even standard statistical analysis as the go-to source for understanding the world? Is data science the latest episode in a history of technological utopianism? 

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• 3/26/2023
  

  ChatGPT Wants to Join SEIU in Breakthrough for Organized Labor

  by Jim Castagnera

  Business owners looking to replace workers with automation beware; ChatGPT is a union bot. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/2023
  

  O'Mara: Politics and Commercial Pressure, not ChatGPT, are the Threats

  Historian of technology and Silicon Valley Margaret O'Mara says that the peril of artificial intelligence chatbots and artificial intellience will lie in how it is marketed; the rush to be first to the market creates conditions for sloppy tech and abusive applications. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/18/2023
  

  Why I'm Not Afraid of ChatGPT

  by Christopher Grobe

  The limits of AI writing technology present writing teachers the opportunity to show students how to demand more of their writing than the bots can possibly provide. 

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• 1/22/2023
  

  As the Progressive Era Ideal of Regulation Vanishes, What Will Stop the March of AI?

  by Walter G. Moss

  If capital decides that artificial intelligence is sufficiently profitable to put in charge of driving our cars, writing our essays, or even teaching our history classes, what is left to stop it, even if the products are terrible or even dangerous? 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/5/2022
  

  How Freaked Out Should Professors Be About Artificial Intelligence Language Tech?

  by John Warner

  ChatGPT can crank out essays full of plausible "content," but it can't engage in contextualization, analysis, or intuitive connection of ideas. The problem it reveals is an education system where outcomes have overtaken process and students are encouraged to write mechanically. 

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• 6/19/2022
  

  Will Artificial Intelligence be the Agent of Capitalism's (and Humanity's) Creative Destruction?

  by Jim Castagnera

  Between science fiction and the political economy of the present, the author wonders if artificial intelligence will constitute humanity's successor species. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  11/30/2021
  

  Facial Surveillance Has Always Been Flawed

  by Amanda Levendowski

  Today, artificial intelligence startups are scraping the web to build massive face-recognition databases, without any pretense of consent by the public. The technology may be new, but the intrusive assertion of surveillance has a long history. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/29/2021
  

  Autonomous Robot Weapons Could be More Destabilizing than Nukes

  by James Dawes

  "Imagine a world in which militaries, insurgent groups and international and domestic terrorists can deploy theoretically unlimited lethal force at theoretically zero risk at times and places of their choosing, with no resulting legal accountability."

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  8/18/2021
  

  Prison Tech Comes Home: Tenants and Residents in the Surveillance State

  by Erin McElroy, Meredith Whittaker and Nicole E. Weber

  Landlords have combined technologies developed for screening tenants in the 1970s with more recent digital surveillance and facial recognition systems developed in prisons to dramatically increase control over their tenants during an affordable housing crisis. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  6/8/2020
  

  The Promise and Risks of Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History

  by Rebecca Slayton

  Machines have been taking over tasks that otherwise require human intelligence for decades, if not centuries.

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• SOURCE: Press Release: Queen Mary University of London
  12-19-2018
  

  Analysing history using Artificial Intelligence

  Queen Mary University of London is leading a major new research project, Living with Machines, which is set to be one of the biggest and most ambitious humanities and science research initiatives ever to launch in the UK.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-10-18
  

  Artificial intelligence has been used to recreate JFK's Dallas speech that he never gave

  Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it?

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  12-11-17
  

  Historians' Debate: Will Robots Rule the World?

  by Dane Kennedy

  Louis Hyman says the nature of the changes being wrought by innovation are unprecedented.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  11-7-17
  

  Stephen Hawking: AI could be 'worst event in the history of our civilization'

  Elon Musk isn't the only high-profile figure concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence.

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• SOURCE: Science World Report
  5-24-16
  

  Yuval Noah Harari turns to fiction

  In the novel, "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow,” the historian warns that Artificial Intelligence will lead to a future class of useless humans.

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  4-14-16
  

  Microsoft's latest AI experiment is refusing to look at photos of Adolf Hitler

  After its last AI chatbot turned into a genocide-advocating, misogynistic, holocaust-denying racist, the company's latest project — a bot that tells you what's in photos — refuses to even look at photos of Adolf Hitler.