Category: Reader
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Reader’s post
This week’s readings both talk about AI, but in very different areas: war and creative industries. What surprised me most is that AI is not just a tool. It is starting to change who has power. In the interview with Palmer Luckey from CBS News, AI is described as the future of warfare, and he…
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Reader Week 11, After Yang
As we know, the discourse surrounding AI is complex, largely speculative, and prone to shift with time. Nick Bostrom and Carl Shulman’s academic article “Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society” was effective, as intended, in “putting some tentative ideas on the table for further discussion” as it was indeed expansive and thought-provoking. While maybe “[i]t is not an essential property of consciousness that it…
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Reader (3/16)
As we inch closer to AGI, important guardrails must be set to foster a positive relationship between humans and AI. Yes, that is a real sentence in 2026. In AI Risk and the Law of AGI, lawyers Peter N Salib and Simon Goldstein criticize prominent proposals designed to prevent AI misuse and provide potential frameworks…
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Reader’s post
When I was reading “How to Read an AI Image” and Sarah T. Roberts’ chapter “Your AI Is a Human,” I realized how casually I use the word “AI” in everyday life without really thinking about what is actually behind it. I tend to imagine AI as something automatic, neutral, and independent. But both readings…
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Reader Week 5, Her
In the early 60s, software “therapist” Eliza was developed by Joseph Weizenbaum. Weizenhaum grew up as a Jew in Nazi Germany amongst other significant life struggles, and computer science became the aspect of his life in which he seemed to most excel and from which he seemed to achieve some sense of self-satisfaction. However, in spite of this, he came to rebuke the problematic use of the very thing he’d helped…
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Reader (2/2)
A few weeks before the scheduled release of ChatGPT, Meta distributed Galactica, a chatbot trained on scientific journals and scholarly databases, pitched as an online research assistant for the science community. In response, articles were generated that highlighted the importance of eating broken glass or the history of bears in space. AI slop was born…
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Student Blogging Sample: READER Post
In her Bodies in Space: Film as Carnal Knowledge essay, Michelson poses that Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey places the viewer in a state of reflexive suspense. She argues that by undermining our “operational reality”, both through literal suspension in outer space, as well as through the constant thematic and plot-driven subversion of expectations,…