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In February 2023, Porcha Woodruff was arrested4 and detained for eleven hours based also on the output of an automated facial recognition system. At the time, Woodruff was eight months pregnant and began to experience contractions while in police custody. The facial recognition system matched her image to footage of a (not visibly pregnant) person stealing a car. Both Williams and Woodruff are Black, and most known false positives5 for facial recognition tools have involved Black individuals.
The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
The idea that we are exchanging modes of reading that have been largely dominant in Western societies for the past few centuries for new technologically mediated modes of reading that have more in common with the centuries in which books were chained and the life of the mind was seen as a threat to the spiritual order maintained by the Church should not strike any sane observer as a hopeful or desirable development.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
Only art history would give you the vocabulary, the context and connections, a sense of what he calls the “possibility space.” Plus, “if society is extremely wealthy, there will be a status battle, and there will be jobs to do that are status-related,” he said. AI is “an order of magnitude” better at chess than Magnus Carlsen, he points out, but no one shows up to watch AI chess engines play each other, and more people are playing chess than ever before.
A Techno Optimist’s Guide to Raising Kids for the Age of AI
Benjamin Wallace
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