Judy Estrin retweeted
"Human well-being and dignity should be our North Star—with innovation in a supporting role."
Tech entrepreneur Judy Estrin (@jlabsllc) explains why pushing AI into every corner of life is a bad idea 🤖💀
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Judy Estrin retweeted
"The awe of machines wielding the power of language is seductive, but Performative AI might be a more appropriate name, as it leans toward production and mimicry—and sometimes fakery—over deep creativity, accuracy, or empathy."
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@jlabsllc
Judy Estrin retweeted
Digital sewage in our information pipeline is poisoning us all. It’s time to clean it up.
Read this powerful piece by Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential thinkers:
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We need fundamental changes to the design of our information distribution systems so that they can benefit society and not just increase profit to a few at our expense.” Read Judy Estrin, who helped create the internet in the early days of Silicon Valley
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At 1970s Stanford, Judy Estrin worked on what became the Web. Now, she’s working to build our understanding of the digital systems that run our lives “We throw around words like safe or responsible without understanding what it means to really be safe”
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Fed up with our crappy information ecosystem? Judy Estrin worked in tech since the early days of Silicon Valley and she has an idea: Stop drinking from the toilet.
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Judy Estrin is one of Silicon Valley’s OG technologists. In this essay, she compares our information ecosystem to water before humans understood sanitation. We need separate pipes for clean information and waste. Brilliantly insightful.
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The inimitable @jlabsllc on how we can build technology that better serves society: "We need [technology] policy changes to balance private and public sector participation.
Many of the proposals on the table today lock in the worst of the problems, with legislation that reinforces inherently bad designs, removes liability, and/or targets specific implementations (redirecting us to equally toxic alternatives)."
We don’t use the same pipes for drinking water and drainage of sewage, yet the design of our current information distribution does not provide the separation to support basic discernment required to make good choices.
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Judy Estrin retweeted
I was lucky enough to meet the legend that is Judy Estrin @jlabsllc in Palo Alto this summer. She was a pioneer in the development of the Internet at its earliest stages. Do read her fascinating essay on how unregulated AI is poisoning our world codastory.com/disinformation…
We don’t use the same pipes for drinking water and drainage of sewage, yet the design of our current information distribution does not provide the separation to support basic discernment required to make good choices.
codastory.com/disinformation…
As always Roger @Moonalice steps back from day to day distractions to caution us to look at the big picture of what is really going on - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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My periodic repost of this amazing piece by @jlabsllc
Truly a MUST READ.
A truly brilliant essay by @jlabsllc.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ /three.
A withering attack on Silicon Valley exceptionalism & their reliance on creating a sense of learned helplessness in society. And this is the 🧑🏽🍳’s💋
“Eliminating humanity is not the only way to wipe out our humanity.”
Judy Estrin retweeted
“The Summit is…overly focused on speculation about the remote ‘existential risks’ of ‘frontier’ AI systems – systems…For many millions of people in the UK & across the world, the risks & harms of AI are not distant—they are felt in the here & now.”
See 🔥 quote from @jlabsllc
A truly brilliant essay by @jlabsllc.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ /three.
A withering attack on Silicon Valley exceptionalism & their reliance on creating a sense of learned helplessness in society. And this is the 🧑🏽🍳’s💋
“Eliminating humanity is not the only way to wipe out our humanity.”
Judy Estrin retweeted
Wonderful article by @jlabsllc :
“The very fact that the evolution of technology feels so inevitable is evidence of an act of manipulation, an authoritarian use of narrative brilliantly described by historian Timothy Snyder.”
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Judy Estrin retweeted
“It’s a really dangerous distraction from the discussions we need to be having around regulation of AI. It takes a lot of the focus away from the very real & ethical risks & harms that AI presents today.”
—@mhairi_aitken
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A truly brilliant essay by @jlabsllc.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ /three.
A withering attack on Silicon Valley exceptionalism & their reliance on creating a sense of learned helplessness in society. And this is the 🧑🏽🍳’s💋
“Eliminating humanity is not the only way to wipe out our humanity.”
Judy Estrin retweeted
This @time piece is excellent.
“A small number of tech titans are busy designing our collective future, presenting their societal vision, and specific beliefs about our humanity, as the only possible path.” time.com/6302761/ai-risks-au…
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As @jlabsllc recently wrote:
“Eliminating humanity is not the only way to wipe out our humanity.”
And @bcmerchant, you’ll love the concluding paragraph!
@GuardianHeather
A truly brilliant essay by @jlabsllc.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ /three.
A withering attack on Silicon Valley exceptionalism & their reliance on creating a sense of learned helplessness in society. And this is the 🧑🏽🍳’s💋
“Eliminating humanity is not the only way to wipe out our humanity.”
Judy Estrin retweeted
“The hubris & determination of tech leaders to control society is threatening our individual, societal, & business autonomy,” writes @jlabsllc. But their AI future “is not inevitable, if we use our powers to question the tools & the people shaping them.” time.com/6302761/ai-risks-au…