RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/115775617668717302

"The managerial conception [of technology users] does not ignore human beings, neglect their agency or resistance, or reduce them to quasi machinery." [but managerial practices bring] "...their own form of dehumanization. The symbolic strategies [...] are manipulative. They begin with the goal of fielding a certain category of technology, and they seek the communicative means to achieve this goal"

P. Agre, Conceptions of the user in computer systems design, 1995

#agre #management #AI

#giftArticle been thinking about Phil #Agre lately, who "wrote in 1994 that the mass collection of data would change and simplify human behavior to make it easier to quantify."

I met him the last day he worked at UChicago. I was looking for advice on a PhD. He thought he'd closed his office door the last time then saw this woman he didnt' know knocking on it (I'd graduated 4 years earlier) and went back to talk to her. #PhilAgre #AIEthics
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