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Kevin Scott believes that the discourse around A.I. has been strangely focussed on dystopian scenarios, and has largely ignored its potential to “level the playing field” for people who know what they want computers to do but lack the training to make it happen.
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker
Charles Duhigg
For the people who come up with policies and run countries, the lessons of the report are not shocking: People are more satisfied with their lives when they have a comfortable standard of living, a supportive social network, good health, the latitude to choose their course in life, and a government they trust. The highest echelon of happy countries also tends to have universal health care, ample paid vacation time, and affordable child care.
Denmark, Finland, and the ‘Secrets’ of the Happiest Countries - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com
But the villain here is not necessarily the Internet, or even the idea of social media; it is the invasive logic of commercial social media and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction. It is furthermore the cult of individuality and personal branding that grow out of such platforms and affect the way we think about our offline selves and the places where we actually live.
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
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