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There’s a practical limit to how much data we can collect; there is the possibility that exceeding the limit may not be enough; and there is data we may never think to collect or be able to (such as data on the cumulative advantages or disadvantages of granting bail). Since none of this deters companies “from selling AI for making consequential decisions about people by predicting their future,” the authors insist we must resist “the AI snake oil that’s already in wide use today” instead of pining for better predictive AI technology.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
The third method for working with chaos is to regard whatever arises as the manifestation of awakened energy. We can regard ourselves as already awake; we can regard our world as already sacred.
Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
Lion’s Roar
You can’t shepherd a people whose words have been captured. And our problem, our first and most pastoral problem, is that the words for the soul have quietly been leased to a machine.
The Reality of AI and the Crisis of Meaning
Longbeard
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