MachineMachine /stream - tagged with ethics https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[A Virtual Reality Sex Worker Was Denied Entry to the U.S. for ‘Prostitution’]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34p5a/a-virtual-reality-sex-worker-was-denied-entry-to-the-us-for-prostitution

Hex makes a living in virtual reality. She’s an online sex worker, hosting shows and posting photos and videos from social VR platform VRChat to her Fansly account, a subscription site for erotic content.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:27:38 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34p5a/a-virtual-reality-sex-worker-was-denied-entry-to-the-us-for-prostitution
<![CDATA[Obnoxious Machines - the prospects for Luddism in the era of AI]]> https://danmcquillan.org/obnoxious-machines-the-prospects-for-luddism-in-the-era-of-ai.html?s=09

It's time to talk about the Ludding times. That's how they talked about it, those who were there, when readying themselves for an insurrection a few years later.

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Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:17:58 -0800 https://danmcquillan.org/obnoxious-machines-the-prospects-for-luddism-in-the-era-of-ai.html?s=09
<![CDATA[AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:51:26 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
<![CDATA[Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker]]> https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. Metaphors are, by their nature, imperfect, but we still need to choose them carefully, because bad ones can lead us astray.

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Wed, 10 May 2023 06:52:28 -0700 https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
<![CDATA[Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World]]> https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/

A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to the majority of the human population.

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Fri, 23 Sep 2022 03:33:26 -0700 https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/
<![CDATA[Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World]]> https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/

A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to the majority of the human population.

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Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:33:26 -0700 https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/
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Data & Society is an independent nonprofit research organization. We believe that empirical evidence should directly inform the development and governance of new technology.

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Thu, 15 Sep 2022 02:33:47 -0700 https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/?s=09
<![CDATA[A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World]]> https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/

A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to the majority of the human population. Instead of assuming that knowledge and innovations move out of the so-called centers of Europe and the United States to the rest of the world, thinking from the “majority world” (a term coined by Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam) means tracing emerging forms of knowledge, innovation, and labor in former and still-colonized spaces. “Majority world” defines a community in terms of what it has, rather than what it lacks.

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Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:33:47 -0700 https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/
<![CDATA[The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2022 | Medium]]> https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7

The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:59 -0700 https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7
<![CDATA[A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold winter’s night. Perhaps you have a mug of tea in hand, perhaps something stronger.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:41 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html
<![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review]]> https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049592/artificial-intelligence-colonialism/

This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full series here. My husband and I love to eat and to learn about history.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:22 -0700 https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049592/artificial-intelligence-colonialism/
<![CDATA[DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/story/dall-e-2-ai-text-image-bias-social-media/

Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a special effects breakthrough that permanently shifted people’s perception of what’s possible.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:17 -0700 https://www.wired.com/story/dall-e-2-ai-text-image-bias-social-media/
<![CDATA[Experts to World: We’re Doomed]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bxxv/experts-to-world-were-doomed

A dangerous mix of increasing international conflict, global climate change, and a lack of governmental efforts to fix either could be leading the world to an era of unprecedented destruction.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:02 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bxxv/experts-to-world-were-doomed
<![CDATA[The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2022 | Medium]]> https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7

The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:59 -0700 https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7
<![CDATA[A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold winter’s night. Perhaps you have a mug of tea in hand, perhaps something stronger.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:41 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html
<![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review]]> https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049592/artificial-intelligence-colonialism/

This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full series here. My husband and I love to eat and to learn about history.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:22 -0700 https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049592/artificial-intelligence-colonialism/
<![CDATA[DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/story/dall-e-2-ai-text-image-bias-social-media/

Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a special effects breakthrough that permanently shifted people’s perception of what’s possible.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:17 -0700 https://www.wired.com/story/dall-e-2-ai-text-image-bias-social-media/
<![CDATA[Experts to World: We’re Doomed]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bxxv/experts-to-world-were-doomed

A dangerous mix of increasing international conflict, global climate change, and a lack of governmental efforts to fix either could be leading the world to an era of unprecedented destruction.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:02 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bxxv/experts-to-world-were-doomed
<![CDATA[Geraldine Juárez on NFTs & Ghosts]]> https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/geraldine-juarez-on-nfts-ghosts/

I remember reading about Geraldine Juárez’s 2014 bitcoin-burning experiment at the time and getting immensely impressed by its boldness. Back then, crypto seemed like a fringe phenomenon – worthy of radical artistic interventions but not earnest policy debate – so I didn’t make much of it.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:40 -0800 https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/geraldine-juarez-on-nfts-ghosts/
<![CDATA[The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times]]> https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-ticking-bomb-of-crypto-fascism

Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to draw historic parallels based on broad economic or cultural trends.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:38 -0800 https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-ticking-bomb-of-crypto-fascism