Thinking about magic, cyborgs, robots, and artificial intelligence--and why some of those words could use changing--since 1982.
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type AI chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less they hew to factual reality. Which: Yeah. A bunch of us told you this. Again: the Purpose of LLM- type AI is [ ]
There s a new open-access book of collected essays called Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity, and I happen to have an essay in it. The collection is made of contributions from participants in the October 2024 Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity panels and workshops put on by Jess Reia, MC Forelle, and [ ]
It s really disheartening and honestly kind of telling that in spite of everything, ChatGPT is actively marketing itself to students in the run-up to college finals season. We ve talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to systems built by [ ]
Back in October, I was the keynote speaker for the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum s 25th annual conference. My talk was titled “On Truth, Values, Knowledge, and Democracy in the Age of Generative AI, ” and it touched on a lot of things that I ve been talking and writing about for a while (in fact, [ ]
One more deep dark to go in 2024, the deepest dark left this year. I don t necessarily think of the dark as a bad thing— i know it shelters and protects— but the last week leading up to this solstice has been among the personally worst I ve had in a while, and the last two [ ]
A few months ago, I was approached by the School of Data Science, and the University Communications office, here at UNC Charlotte, to ask me to sit down for some coverage my Analytics Frontiers keynote, and my work on AI, broadly construed. Well, I just found out that the profile that local station WRAL wrote [ ]
Every so often, I think about the fact of one of the best things my advisor and committee members let me write and include in my actual doctoral dissertation, and I smile a bit, and since I keep wanting to share it out into the world, I figured I should put it somewhere more accessible. [ ]
So, you may have heard about the whole zoom AI Terms of Service clause public relations debacle, going on this past week, in which Zoom decided that it wasn t going to let users opt out of them feeding our faces and conversations into their LLMs. In 10.1, Zoom defines Customer Content as whatever data users [ ]
As of this week, I have a new article in the July-August 2023 Special Issue of American Scientist Magazine. It s called Bias Optimizers, and it s all about the problems and potential remedies of and for GPT-type tools and other A.I. This article picks up and expands on thoughts started in The P Stands for Pre-Trained [ ]
I know I ve said this before, but since we re going to be hearing increasingly more about Elon Musk and his Anti-Woke A.I. Truth GPT in the coming days and weeks, let s go ahead and get some things out on the table: All technology is political. All created artifacts are rife with values. There is no [ ]