[Experts] caution that everyone, including those living in a state without restrictions, may want to keep their health care decisions private.
When you’re optimizing for efficiency, you’re getting rid of redundancies. But when patients’ lives are at stake, you actually want redundancy. You want extra slack in the system. You want multiple sets of eyes on a patient in a hospital.
For anyone feeling like you don’t know what to do, I urge you to think hard about what matters most to you, and look for ways to fight for those things — particularly if you have specific skills that you can put to use. Are you a good writer? Tech savvy? A compelling leader? Good at coming up with new ideas? Find things that play to your strengths.
As technology educators, coaches, and administrators, we have a disproportionate say in the platforms that are brought into schools. We need to understand what our colleagues need, what these platforms can do, and whether these align.
Many research-backed edtech tools only report on the success of “students who used the program as recommended”. What about the majority who don’t?
The biggest innovation here isn’t what Generative AI does, or can do, but rather the creation of an ecosystem that’s hopelessly dependent upon a handful of hyperscalers, and has no prospect of ever shaking its dependence.
As algorithmic decision-making plays an increasingly central role in our lives, the ability to defer or appeal to human review diminishes for all but a few.
Steps to prevent scraping lock out anyone who can’t afford the same deals as monopolies. This is collateral damage from AI giants deciding they’re entitled to all user-generated content.
The finance world is catching onto the gap between the hype and reality of generative AI.
We should remain vigilant when it comes to protecting our privacy and security. But we can only do so much when companies break norms and best practices.
The last-mile delivery problem is not met by chat bots.
Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods.
Open AI’s hiring of a former NSA director may signal a shift to surveillance as a service.
[AI tools] do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial.
I can convince myself to stick with anything if I tell myself it’s only a week-long experiment.
All the big, exciting uses for AI are either low-dollar (helping kids cheat on their homework, generating stock art for bottom-feeding publications) or high-stakes and fault-intolerant (self-driving cars, radiology, hiring, etc.).