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Using de-anthropomorphized language: 

How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization

artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation

hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence

image recognition → image labeling

speech recognition → automatic transcription

the model shows bias → the model …

A Technology of Unlearning

Toffler’s call for an education system that prioritized learning, relearning, and unlearning was meant to prepare students for a world of unpredictability and precarity. (Instead of, say, creating not only a school system, but a whole society in which their dignity and …

AI Economics for Dummies

We hope these examples help clarify the inner workings of AI economics.

Yes, thank you. Now it makes sense … *mumbles* where did I stash my guillotine again?

“Have conviction in what you want to share with the world.” – Unsung

On top of all that, we can add what Brownlee started with in his video: overeager A:B tests feel like software’s version of gaslighting. How can you trust an app if it feels like it’s changing without rhyme and reason seemingly on …

The Next Hype

My friend quite convincingly argued that the next hype will be “Terraforming“.

I sure hope not.

Present Company Excepted

If we want something different for children – and by extension, something different for society as a whole – then we probably need to articulate a progressive vision for education. Because we should want to ensure that a pushback on “the digital” doesn’t simply …

To Dismantle Democracy, You Subvert Public Schools

The subversion of democracy – at its core, that is what the efforts to undermine public school truly are – has shifted the burden of changing “the system” onto the individual. Such is goal of the neoliberal fantasy, in which everything …

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