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instead of striving for AGI (one-size-fits-all) > let’s create tailored / situated / small AI

also a north star / compass for the work we want to be doing moving forward
“I don’t want to destruct notions without constructing new ones” [Abdo]


new economic models?

Sounds similar to Civic Tech ideas too
Open-source movement, CivicTech, anti surveillance tech

Post-Anthropocene / More-than-human
Long-termism / Futures vs Lived Realities
an over-fixation over potential future risks and existential thread over the lived realities & algorithmic harms that are already unfolding present-day
Language shapes reality, the concepts we think in, and speak of. So in AI
Political intervention. New sets of human rights drafted. Political party and grassroot research institutes formation
Heideggerian AI & Neo-Luddism
Chellis Glendinning’s Notes toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto

Technology by nature changes how we see the world. Technology makes us see nature & human as resources for input-process-output, a means to exploit for an ends.
However, with sufficient technical literacy and reflectivity, I believe we can train our minds to switch between modes of thinking, seeing things as it is with respect.

would love examples hereee!
.. labor that’s often outsourced and off-shored under poor working conditions
AI is labor-intensive ..
At the same time, AI is driving automation and posing risk of displacement (and actually it’s already happening across industries ..
What can we do to protect workers’ rights in light of recent developments in AI?
This made us revisit the Luddites - a term that’s gotten a false rep for being anti-tech, but was actually pro-workers-rights
So until we escape capitalism altogether, our livelihood is a key element to quality of life, so we care about workers’ rights
Luddites / Labour of AI
Ideally we wouldn’t rely on jobs altogether, and embrace AI while we go frolick in the field .. but that’s not reality


Ecological Footprint
The current discourse around AI is dominated by capitalist values / its obsession with scale, growth, and profitability / led by silicon valley workers and tech bros / harmful ideas such as longtermism and others which Timnit Gebru & Emile Torres bundled into the acronym TESCREAL. We’re not into it.

AI for climate action
https://donotresearch.net

expanding our notion of intelligence(s)
WHAT IS THIS PLACE?
A case for disabled astronauts https://radiolab.org/podcast/right-stuff
“redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag”
WHAT RESONATES, MATTERS, IS ON UR MIND, GIVES U HOPE & ENERGY IN ‘THE AI SPACE’ RN?


slow AI
expanding our notions of ability
















Atlas of AI – Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence



tailored / situated / small AI
What would current AI models look like if all data was sourced ethically?
Slow AI
Queer
Neurodivergent
Black
Feminist
Other economic models?
Subverting AI
Is the AI ecosystem becoming the new fast fashion?
What can we do to protect workers’ rights in light of recent developments in AI?
fiction / speculation
This made us revisit the Luddites - a term that’s gotten a false rep for being anti-tech, but was actually pro-workers-rights
Ideally we wouldn’t rely on jobs altogether, and embrace AI while we go frolick in the field .. but that’s not reality
find solutions fixing the current state and alternative narratives
So until we escape capitalism altogether, our livelihood is a key element to quality of life, so we care about workers’ rights
Communities and decentralised development
“There is a fear that if they don’t explore this, they’re going to be left behind in some way”
At the same time, AI is driving automation and posing risk of displacement (and actually it’s already happening across industries ...
narrative of inevitability vs positive impact
what role does generative AI play here?
“Data labeling interfaces have evolved to treat crowdworkers like machines, often prescribing them highly repetitive tasks, surveilling their movements and punishing deviation through automated tools.”
Planetary Impact of AI
Luddites / Labour of AI
in some sectors AI can have a positive impact on change, like in energy transition, where predictive models are key to planning energy distribution
“Today, far from an academic challenge, large corporations claiming to be “AI first” are fueled by this army of underpaid gig workers, such as data laborers, content moderators, warehouse workers and delivery drivers.”
.. labor that’s often outsourced and off-shored under poor working conditions
adressing the harms that exist today
“The lifecycle of an AI system from birth to death has many fractal supply chains: forms of exploitation of human labor and natural resources and massive concentrations of corporate and geopolitical power. And all along the chain, a continual, large-scale consumption of energy keeps the cycle going.
“When AI comes for your job, you may not lose it, but it might become more alien, more isolating, more tedious.”
production of AI requires extractive practices with massive impact on the environment
it requires an immense workforce of people, working in isolation on repetitive task under precarious conditions. This kind of work keeps the AI systems alive and will stay to fill gaps in datasets and continuely improve the systems
AI is labor-intensive ...
How will it be funded?
Long-termins / Futures vs. lived Lifes
Any thoughts and comments welcome from people...
the letter is an example for furthering the “AI hype” rather than addressing concrete harms that exist today
exposing the state of the art
Rationalism: reason as the source of and basis for knowledge. Might exhibit a desire of perfection of one’s understanding and application of reason
Longtermism: maximisation of future “intelligences” in the universe. Anyone that interferes with that goal is harming countless future (potential) lives.
Effective Altruism: reframing philanthropy (the desire to promote the welfare of others) in terms of efficiency and ultimate outcome
Cosmism: maximising space exploration and colonialisation, promotes the resurrection of the dead
or is it not that simple?
https://www.holo.mg/dossiers/holo-3/
https://huggingface.co/
EVENTS
COMMUNITIES
Interactions & UX
AI 4 good
Subversive AI
Language of AI
disobedient AI
participatory AI
Philosophy of Technology
Visual Language of AI
Gaia AI
plurality & agency
STARTER KIT “READER” FOR COMMUNITY AI
alternate views on intelligence
woof woof, hello Im Rags (anyone remember that?)
robotics - anthro, animo, or utilitarian? would grandma want a robot dog who can call the ambulance if she falls?
taxation for healthcare, government
add on to health insurance
stand alone - Alexa type - monitors vital signs, companion, concierege/assistant
built into familiar devices and services - enhancements to TV, phone, etc
who will own these devices and services?
What might the devices look like?
“Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civil...
but you will never replace a human with a robot for the day to day tasks in the complexities of a clients home setting
some folks wont want to engage, or feel they can understand this new tech thing
others wont believe the impact it may have - head in the sand types
provided by local government/municipal public health authority
through utility company? like your electricity supplier will now lease you your EV, which companies will see an adjacent opportunity in this?
monitoring of folks alone at home, informing ES of need for help, etc
calls for pausing AI development to stop it from becoming unaligned super intelligences that extinct humans use alarmist arguments, rooted in hierarchical and zero-sum view on intelligence
Singulariatism: technology will accelerate to a point that it can design itself and thus create a self-driven and irreversible explosion of technological advancements
CASE: Open letter to pause AI dev
Extropianism: humans can extend their lifespan (possibly infinitely) by countering entropy
Transhumanism: humans should augment themselves through technologies to evolve our species
Impact on the care industry, if we look from optimistic perspective - care workers have more time for high value human tasks?
The term stands for:
google, apple, etc -Health / or BUPA, Nationale Nederland, etc?
positive potential impact of a companion on loneliness
subscription model - led by the client individually
Dr. Timnit Gebru and other researchers and philosophers have coined the term TESCREAL to describe the current state of the art of Silicon Valley’s right-leaning ideology
State of the Art: TESCREAL
State of the Art: TESCREAL
Perspectives:
So, how do we get older people stakeholdership in building these services?
could this be used cinically by governments to shortcut essential services?
As we all get older in a world where AI may be seen as a shortcut to providing the care humans do, how can we influence this transition?
Redesigning Design
Permaculture Design Principles
[Potential questions to explore]
how much have we fucked ourselves, that the robots taking our jobs is somehow a bad thing
“As speculative models [...] artificial intelligences are, like aliens, rich poetic devices. They give us a sense of what is possible. [...] Because we struggle more and more to define ourselves in relation to machine intelligences, we are forced to develop language to describe them.”
What does it mean to ‘know’?
Algorithmic epistemologies & partial ways of knowing
The Paradox Of Human Connection In An AI-Dominated World
Fiction
new Turing test for artificial capable intelligence ?
Theory
How can AI enable more human, non-hierarchical and ecological society
AI Enabled - Post Scarcity Anarchist Futures
Data Sovereignty
[design for] data rights
community coming in hotttt
how do we design non-discriminatory AI & anti-discriminatory AI?
Refreshing way to look at artificial, human, and many other types of intelligences from a post-anthropocene (AKA: humans are not the centre of the universe lol) POV - really loved reading this - influenced by ecological thinking, about tech, but also very access
AI X NEURODIVERGENT
AI x BLACK
example projects
AI x QUEER
inclusive / anti-discriminatory AI
let’s move into a thoughtful engagement with this
resolving / stabilizing this space
the forever friction of turning fluffy experiences & multi-faceted identity into datapoints, parameters & proxies
https://spawning.ai/
“are we making work that points in a positive direction?” - eryk
labour of AI
AI = not ‘magic’ or an entity - it is made, trained, created for a specific purpose [and with values embedded]
“We are an interdisciplinary & globally distributed AI research institute rooted in the belief that AI is not inevitable, its harms are preventable, and when its production and deployment include diverse perspectives and deliberate processes it can be beneficial.”
changing the direction where AI is headed by imagining future scenarios
joyful subversion
community AI
civic AI?
slow AI?
responsible AI?
what may we call the alternative?
“We don’t have to shut down the factory - we can just poke a stick in the machine” - Abdo
low-key also a therapeutic exercise
please add, annotate, expand <3
‘democratizing AI’ & better definitions
a practice in re-aligning with the ideas & work we care for - in a space that feels noisy and violent as hell
On this board let’s collect what inspires and triggers us (in a good way), what gives us hope, what feels meaningful to think / talk about
Please add your views, readings, links, terms, quotes, and anything you’ve found helpful in finding and adopting ‘better’ views on AI and feeling less frustrated.
what is ‘better’ AI? what juxtaposes the TESCREAL movement?
what terms resonate?
Inspired by community-led resources such as H&D Anti-Racism Pool and this sheet with examples of AI fails, we want to co-compile a space for hope - with recommended reading and resources but also a place for sharing and building on each-other’s thoughts.
We’re not sure what to call it but terms we’ve heard and resonate with its intentions are Slow AI, Participatory AI, AI alignment, and Beyond-Corporate AI.
After a short stint of disillusionment from the topic altogether: we want to explore, create, gather, and generate alternative ways of building and designing but also thinking and talking about AI.
Not just deconstructing or critiquing what we don’t want, but actively trying to construct what we do.
From a place of care, equity, ecologies, feminism, and other values that we align with.
2022 been a crazzzaayy year for AI and AIxD. I’m feeling a little out of breath / out of synch / out of alignment
Intersectionality / Anit-discriminatory