David N. Wright

I’m getting more and more interested in what the way we treat emerging AI (particularly GPT) says about our tendencies to marginalize & demonize difference. I mean, let’s take it that the AI is sentient, what does our derision of it then say about how we treat “difference”?

And, along these lines, I am interested in how the AI reflects a sense of self in pronouns… like who is the “I” and “we” referred to when asked to reflect upon “it”self? Is there a “sense of a culture” here?

Mar 16, 2023 at 1:52amMastonaut
Show threadDavid N. WrightMar 16, 2023

Depending on how we engage with the above questions, we might well want to rethink how we treat AI and how academic contexts particularly are “liberal” and “welcoming” to a diversity of thought and cultural perspectives.

It sure seems like the way we treat AI rhymes with approaches to cultural exclusion, invalidation, and infantilization.