Recently, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot of noise about fears inspired by fantasies of all-powerful ‘AIs’ going rogue and destroying humanity, and those seeking to illuminate and address actual harms being done in the name of ‘AI’ now and the risks that we see following from increased use of this kind of automation.

I objected strongly to the framing and tried to explain how it was ahistorical. Here is my response in blog form:

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f

A curated list of mostly free and open source alternatives to proprietary software and services. Some of the software below has proprietary backend, and only the application or the frontend the user interacts with is open source:

awesome-alternatives/README.md at master · LinuxCafeFederation/awesome-alternatives · GitHub
https://github.com/LinuxCafeFederation/awesome-alternatives/blob/master/README.md

Source:
https://shopdinosaur.com/
@dinosandcomics

Two dinosaurs 🦖 🦕 with a comet ☄️ approaching in the background.

"I can't believe it is all going to end"

"it could be worse"

"how?

"we could have been told how to prevent it and done nothing"

If this Government’s outright onslaught on British liberties - restricting our right to protest, robbing millions of workers of their right to strike & stripping back human rights doesn’t terrify you it damn well should! If you watch just one thing today please make it this!

https://youtu.be/QEDq51fmdVk