The $1 Trillion Question, Mortality in the Age of Generative Ghosts, Your Mind and AI, How to Design AI Tutors for Learning, The Imagining Summit Preview: Adam Cutler, and Helen's Book of the Week.
Magritte's "Son of Man" metaphor explores digital obscurity of reality. AI model collapse mirrors human isolation effects. Minds struggle without diverse input. Balancing AI benefits and genuine human connection crucial. Develop metacognitive skills to navigate this new landscape.
Generative AI promises personalized learning at scale but risks creating dependency. Complementary cognitive artifacts enhance skills; competitive ones replace them. Effective AI tutors balance engagement and autonomy, expanding human cognition without diminishing critical abilities.
In this episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Chelsea Barabas a PhD candidate at MIT’s Media Lab. We talk about her work on bias in the criminal justice system as well as her most recent work applying the concept of “studying up” from anthropology to the data science world.
In this episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing Chelsea Barabas a PhD candidate at MIT’s Media Lab. We talk about her work on bias in the criminal justice system as well as her most recent work applying the concept of “studying up” from anthropology to the data science world.
Here are some of the links we refer to in the episode:
http://www.chelsbar.com
https://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/chelsea-barabas/
https://medium.com/@chelsea_barabas
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opinion/pretrial-ai.html
https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca31.3.01/367
https://discardstudies.com/2016/08/08/ethnographic-refusal-a-how-to-guide/
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/421/tab-article-info
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
