{"id":11239,"date":"2023-08-18T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/18\/ai-can-shape-society-for-the-better-but-humans-and-machines-must-work-together-d-fox-harrell\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:37:21","slug":"ai-can-shape-society-for-the-better-but-humans-and-machines-must-work-together-d-fox-harrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/18\/ai-can-shape-society-for-the-better-but-humans-and-machines-must-work-together-d-fox-harrell\/","title":{"rendered":"AI can shape society for the better \u2013 but humans and machines must work together | D Fox Harrell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collaboration rather than command-and-control is key to creating culturally and ethically positive systems<\/p>\n

One of the first images of AI I encountered was a white, spectral, hostile, disembodied head<\/a>. It was in the computer game Neuromancer<\/a>, <\/em>programmed by Troy Miles and based on William Gibson\u2019s cyberpunk novel. Other people may have first encountered HAL 9000<\/a> from Stanley Kubrik\u2019s 2001: A Space Odyssey <\/em>or Samantha from Spike Jonze\u2019s Her.<\/p>\n

Images from pop culture influence people\u2019s impressions of AI, but culture has an even more profound relationship to it. If there\u2019s one thing to take away from this article, it is the idea that AI systems are not objective machines, but instead based in human culture: our values, norms, preferences, and behaviours in society. These aspects of our culture are reflected in how systems are engineered. So instead of trying to decide whether AI systems are objectively good or bad for society, we need to design them to reflect the ethically positive culture we truly want.<\/p>\n

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\nCollaboration rather than command-and-control is key to creating culturally and ethically positive systems
\nOne of the first images of AI I encountered was a white, spectral, hostile, disembodied head. It was in the computer game Neuromancer, programmed by Troy Miles and based on William Gibson\u2019s cyberpunk novel. Other people may have first encountered HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrik\u2019s 2001: A Space Odyssey or Samantha from Spike Jonze\u2019s Her.
\nImages from pop culture influence people\u2019s impressions of AI, but culture has an even more profound relationship to it. If there\u2019s one thing to take away from this article, it is the idea that AI systems are not objective machines, but instead based in human culture: our values, norms, preferences, and behaviours in society. These aspects of our culture are reflected in how systems are engineered. So instead of trying to decide whether AI systems are objectively good or bad for society, we need to design them to reflect the ethically positive culture we truly want. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collaboration rather than command-and-control is key to creating culturally and ethically positive systems One of the first images of AI I encountered was a white, spectral, hostile, disembodied head. It was in the computer game Neuromancer, programmed by Troy Miles and based on William Gibson\u2019s cyberpunk novel. Other people may have first encountered HAL 9000 …<\/p>\n

AI can shape society for the better \u2013 but humans and machines must work together | D Fox Harrell<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}