"Men release powerful changes into the world with cavalier disregard for consequences … they begin to “use” apparatus, technique, and organization with no attention to the ways in which these “tools” unexpectedly rearrange their lives … they willingly submit the governance of their affairs to the expertise of others … they begin to participate without second thought in megatechnical systems far beyond their comprehension or control … they endlessly proliferate technological forms of life that isolate people from each other and cripple rather than enrich the human potential … they stand idly by while vast technical systems reverse the reasonable relationship between means and ends."—Langdon Winner, Autonomous Technology (1977)

Relevant then, even more relevant and prescient now.

#Philosophy #Technology #AI #inequality #PoliticalEconomy #GlobalWarming #SilconValley #Critique

‘Spatial Computing’ enables flexible working memory

Brain applies rhythms to physical patches of the cortex to selectively control just the right neurons at the right times to do the right things.

https://picower.mit.edu/news/spatial-computing-enables-flexible-working-memory

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Dennett: "This is the real code red. We need to “institute new attitudes, new laws, and spread them rapidly and remove the valorization of fooling people, the anthropomorphization,” he said. “We want smart machines, not artificial colleagues.”"

Anyone with a financial interest in AI/ML should be considered too compromised to have an honest opinion on these topics.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

I am writing a public (short) article on cognitive set/task set. Any suggestions for the topics and articles to be included?

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#psychologoy