Stay Human Chapter 2 | Steve Sloman
Stay Human: Chapter 2 Helen just published Chapter 2 of Stay Human: "The Right to a Future Tense."
We are dedicated to unraveling the profound impact of AI on our society, communities, workplaces, and personal lives. To truly grasp this transformation, our approach is rooted in engaging with core concepts such as critical thinking, logical analysis, and the scrutiny of underlying assumptions, principles that are essential in the realm of philosophical inquiry.
How might a mind for our minds help us with the paradox of knowing what we care about but allowing us to care about something for which it has no knowledge?
How might AI machines affect human culture? And how will we adapt to new forms of cultural inequality?
Generative AI changes how we should think about designing machines. How might we design AI to be a mind for our minds?
Making a good decision implies that we have some idea of what’s true. But we do not have infinite data inputs or processing capacity. We are limited by our lifetimes.
Caring machines may be the only way to scale empathy across our species.
Now that more machine learning-based AI has been deployed in more places, human skills are being replaced in finer slices with new automation technologies. What has been observed in traditional blue collar work is that not all AI is good enough to increase the value of the output.
How AI could help our reasoning when it's most flawed: aka when we're subject to cognitive biases.
Resolving a fundamental incompatibility with AI in human decision-making
Most decisions and most deciders are hybrids. Some machine, some human. The trick is to imagine all the ways that humans figure out ways around, over, and through the machine when what they really want is to make the decision themselves even if it means sacrificing accuracy.
Everyone likes to follow their intuition because it’s the ultimate act of trusting oneself.
WFH surveillance is growing but employers need to move on.
The math of COVID-19 may mean some level of opt-in tracking is vital to stop repeated outbreaks
AI is changing how you think. Get the ideas and research to keep you the author of your own mind.