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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
Education is and should be primarily about intellectual navigation, about—I scruple not to say it—skimming well, and reading carefully for information in order to upload content. Slow and patient reading, by contrast, properly belongs to our leisure hours.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
I call “the New Jim Code”: the employment of new technologies that reflect and reproduce existing inequities but that are promoted and perceived as more objective or progressive than the discriminatory systems of a previous era.8 Like other kinds of codes that we think of as neutral, “normal” names have power by virtue of their perceived neutrality. They trigger stories about what kind of person is behind the name – their personality and potential, where they come from but also where they should go.
Race After Technology
Ruha Benjamin
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