Anthropologist addresses artificial intelligence and the authority we give to it

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-anthropologist-artificial-intelligence-authority.html

> As people embrace ChatGPT and other large language models, University of Michigan anthropologist Webb Keane says it's easy for people to imbue AI with a human, or even god-like, authority.

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Anthropologist addresses artificial intelligence and the authority we give to it

As people embrace ChatGPT and other large language models, University of Michigan anthropologist Webb Keane says it's easy for people to imbue AI with a human, or even god-like, authority.

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ANT 335 : 'Psychedelics, Shamanism and Plant Intelligence' meets Chapel of Sacred Mirrors… via @TootTropiques #psychedelics #shamanism #anthroplogy https://anthropology.princeton.edu/news/ant-335-visits-chapel-sacred-mirrors
ANT 335 visits Chapel of Sacred Mirrors

On April 6, students from ANT 335, “Psychedelics, Shamanism and Plant Intelligence,” taught by visiting professor Glenn Shepard ’87, visited the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, an artistic and spiritual center in Wappinger, New York. There, students were given a personal tour by international artist-celebrities Alex and Alysson Grey, who are pioneering f

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Neanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggests

Modern human DNA may have made up a surprisingly large amount of the Neanderthal genome, a new study finds.

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Interspecific Competition Played Key Role in Rise and Fall of Hominins, Study Suggests
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Interspecific Competition Played Key Role in Rise and Fall of Hominins, Study Suggests | Sci.News

New research shows for the first time that competition was fundamental to speciation -- the rate at which new species emerge -- across 5 million years of hominin evolution.

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„The real reason for the unwillingness of most scholars to see a Sulawezi or Tallensi village council as “democratic”—well, aside from simple racism, the reluctance to admit anyone Westerners slaugh- tered with such relative impunity were quite on the level as Pericles—is that they do not vote.“ — David Graeber, Fragments of an #Anarchist #Anthroplogy

17th-century Frenchwoman’s gold dental work was likely torturous to her teeth

A new study found that fine gold wires held an aristocratic French woman’s teeth in place at the turn of the 17th century.

The remains of Anne d’Alègre, who lived between 1565 until 1619, were discovered during archaeological excavations at the Chateau de Laval in northeastern France in 1988....

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17th-century Frenchwoman's gold dental work was likely torturous to her teeth

A new study found that fine gold wires held an aristocratic French woman's teeth in place at the turn of the 17th century.

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@BrightFlame @wormerama yes! I am a #ClimateWeaver too (a term used in paper by Rebecca Willis et al, about different types of #ClimateAction) and I would love to be in. I am in the process of setting up a new MA in #regenerative #Anthroplogy in Practice, where i hope to integrate #SolarPunk as much as possible. You and others, btw, might also like to contribute to our collective #ClimateDiary here on Mastodon - a #Writing weaving project! Do check it out - still small but really interesting
Preserved in Legends and Ice: What Led to the Extinction of the Dorset Culture?

Before the Inuit’s ancestors conquered the Arctic region of what we now call Canada and Greenland, there is evidence of another remarkable Paleo-Eskimo culture– the Dorset.

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Anyone wrote here already about christmas and the #Anthroplogy of it's development and implications it came with from when it 'started' to now?

My knowledge in that doesn't go behond having read parts of wikipedia articles.

If you have some knowledge about that topic, I really aprichiate to read your toots about it, and boost them all the time during and around #christmas.

Spoiler:
The event got repeatatly assimilated to be used as a tool fostering culture.