Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids

The more we rely on artificial intelligence for our knowledge base, the more we should be focused on what the training data includes and excludes. The answer may shape our future understanding of our shared history and the world around us.

Knowledge always needs someone to recognize. It is an active act, not something given by the world some territo

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A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.

“There’s this great essay by Hannah Baer in the latest issue of Artforum, where she unpacks why we are so afraid of AI becoming more intelligent than humans. If you look at this historically, humans have positioned themselves as the most intelligent species, even though that’s not true. As the “most intelligent species,” we’ve used this power as an

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The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt

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