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AI Cassandras (part 1)

TikTok · 05:08 · Aug 17, 2023

Highlights from the Rolling Stone article about five AI experts, all women of color, who have been trying to warn us about the risks and harms of artificial intelligence – and were, in some cases, fired for sounding the alarm.

• These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots

GPTBot rant

TikTok · 02:37 · Aug 14, 2023

A short rant about how we let OpenAI and other companies scrape our data without our permission. We now have the ability to block the GPTBot web crawler, but why is this opt out instead of opt in?

• GPTBot documentation
• VentureBeat report on GPTBot
• TikTok on getting revenge on Google Docs AI

Why does ChatGPT lie?

TikTok · 01:34 · Aug 13, 2023

When using ChatGPT, keep in mind what it was actually designed to do: generate plausible sounding text. For now, fact checking remains in your capable human hands!

AI ethics & gender (part 2)

TikTok · 04:18 · Aug 10, 2023

Women and other marginalized people have been making the most significant contributions to the field of AI ethics – and suffering the consequences of speaking up –, yet we keep elevating the voices of tenured men who often take a surprisingly long time to realize the possible misuses and negatives impacts of their work.

• AI Ethics timeline
• Weapons of Math Destruction
• Atlas of AI
• Profile on Joseph Weizenbaum
• Interview with Timnit Gebru

AI ethics & computer science (part 1)

TikTok · 03:41 · Aug 10, 2023

Part 1 of sharing my personal experience with how computer scientists tend to dismiss AI ethics as a distraction from the “real” and “hard” artificial intelligence research.

Agile is broken

TikTok · 06:58 · Aug 8, 2023

The way we practice agile software development is broken. Constant sprinting and demands for delivering “business value” leave little room for ethical debates and treat developers as code monkeys. We can and should do better.

• Agile Manifesto
• Shit User Story
• Developer Hegemony
• CHANI profile

Responsible tech communities

TikTok · 01:59 · Aug 1, 2023

Responsible tech communities worth checking out. Most of them are Slack based, be sure to check out their newsletters as well.

• All Tech Is Human
• Ethical Design Network
• ClimateAction.Tech
• Work On Climate
• Center for Humane Technology

Tempering the gen AI flame

TikTok · 05:16 · Jul 30, 2023

Thoughts on how we can temper the generative AI flame and not get caught in its harms & hype narratives, but instead explore rainbow mirrors through experimentation and imagination.

• Time article on Karya

Technology as fire analogy

TikTok · 03:18 · Jul 27, 2023

Exploring fire as an analogy for technology. Instead of starting fires with the “move fast break things” approach, it’s time we started exploring responsible firekeeping with Elemental Ethics.

Dancing with AI fire

TikTok · 01:53 · Jul 27, 2023

You don’t have to dance with the fire of generative AI just because everyone else is. The path of a responsible firekeeper beckons.

Why is OpenAI avoiding sustainability?

TikTok · 02:28 · Jul 25, 2023

We can only guess what the environmental costs of training and using ChatGPT and other similar large language models. It’s time for OpenAI to take responsibility for the impact they have on the environment!

• OpenAI’s research on job impacts
• OpenAI Charter

Beware algorithmic decision making

TikTok · 03:21 · Jul 24, 2023

As we introduce more AI and algorithmic decision making into tools we use for work, it becomes increasingly important to demand greater transparency and better appeal processes with more humans in the loop.

• Timnit Gebru’s LinkedIn post
• Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study