AI
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On automation, William Gaddis, and addiction.
An inefficient world might be a much better place to live.
Agape Agape, AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Brian Alexander, Capital, capitalism, corporate managers, corporate takeover, death of small towns, delivery drone, drug prices, economics, evolutionary inefficiencies, Glass House, greed, heroin, human evolution, inequality, investors, J R, Jeff Bezos, jobs that robots can do, JR, labor economics, labor vs. capital, machine learning, Mark Binelli, meth, people want jobs, people want to work, piano roll, player piano, robot doctors, robot lawyers, robot writers, robotics, robots, robots designed by robots, The Michigan Experiment, unemployment, wealth, who should the stakeholders of a school be, William Gaddis
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On empathizing with machines.
With sufficient power to pursue its goals, an AI might destroy the world. But then, we’d probably do it too.
AI, algorithm, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, Burt Helm, computer games, decision-making, empathy, end of the world, ethics, Facebook, Facebook advertising, Facebook algorithm, Frank Lantz, goals, GPS, Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Guantánamo, machines, money, morality, neural networks, paperclips, philosophy, the algorithm, tools
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On race and our criminal justice system.
In our nation’s criminal justice system, we ignore most of who people are… and focus only on the parts of them we fear.
AI, blow and go, broken communities, Child Beater, education, emotional trauma, going without medication, jail, jail medical care, jail poetry, Marfan syndrome, mass incarceration, medical care in jail, Norman Dubie, persona poetry, poetry, poverty, prison, prison poetry, probation, prosecutorial discretion, racial injustice, rehabilitation, Safe Passage, sentencing inequality, teaching, teaching in jail
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On Skynet, and why I’m still gung-ho about AI research despite having watched two out of four Terminator movies.
Maybe we just need an all-out war against a machine of our own creation.
Frank Brown Cloud 