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As of yesterday, Voices in the Code is a published book!
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How do algorithms change our stories about who people are?
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Book excerpt in Slate
An inadvertent pioneer of AI Ethics
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Hi there, Totally Human readers —
Signing off till next year
Happy holidays everyone!
Do we need heroes? I think so.
And we can get them back, not by putting blinders on, but by recognizing how many different stories any one person inhabits.
A short, pre- 🦃 update.
I’ve got several things brewing this week, but nothing great to send.
Meet Empress Wu Zeitan
She made a new kind of person, through a hiring algorithm.
Meet Father Giles
Or, the creative art of deciding what to measure
Treating things like people
It’s easy to worry when we notice people getting treated like things. But the line between person and thing is also blurring from the other side.
Struggle-based identities: When are they worth it?
Blogger and psychiatrist Scott Alexander wonders when, if ever, “naming and pointing to a mental health problem make[s] it worse.” Some of that debate is about very concrete mental health problems that are relatively easy to measure, such as suicides.