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Indigenous resistance to AI
I was researching and writing a post about Indigenous people in tech when I discovered an amazing company called Animikii and their resources about data sovereignty and resisting generative AI (thanks to this article, Celebrating Indigenous Tech).
Indigenous resistance to AI
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Indigenous History and the Land
Vox Clamantis Books is located on the Haldimand Tract, part of the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. So let’s unpack what that means.
Indigenous History and the Land
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TBT: Imagining Other Possible Worlds
A Throwback Thursday post Science fiction, particularly the writings of Ursula le Guin, explores hypothetical alternative societies, cultures, futures, and histories. I am currently watching Babylon 5 again on DVD, and would highly recommend it as an exploration of what happens when a totalitarian and xenophobic government takes over, and how people come together to resist.
TBT: Imagining Other Possible Worlds
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Ethical dilemmas around religious exemption
In a previous post, I looked at the possibility of being granted a religious exemption from using AI. This raises a possible dilemma: if people of conscience can get religious exemptions from harmful activities like war and other forms of causing suffering to others, how is that different from allowing bigots to opt out of…
Ethical dilemmas around religious exemption
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Religious Exemption from using AI
If you have an ethic of avoiding harm to the environment and other people, AI and its associated requirement for data processing centres which guzzle water and electricity, and slave labour (or very poorly-paid labour) to mine the minerals needed for the devices it runs on, definitely qualifies as the sort of harm that we…
Religious Exemption from using AI
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Filtering out AI
For people who want human-made art and writing in their search results, it’s getting harder to distinguish between AI and human-made, as large language models “learn” to generate productions that look more like human language and art.
Filtering out AI
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Human Intelligence
Artist and author Mickie Mueller has created a “human intelligence” digital badge for art and writing, to make it easy to distinguish between human-produced art and AI-generated stuff. Here’s the elevator pitch: It’s a badge free for human creators to add to their social media posts of all kinds that helps everyone know at a…
Human Intelligence
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AI and consciousness
When I was a kid and artificial intelligence (AI) was firmly in the realm of science fiction, asking whether AI could become conscious seemed like an interesting philosophical problem, but mostly irrelevant. Why did the Butlerian Jihad destroy all “thinking machines”? Why did humans hunt the androids in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The…
AI and consciousness
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Indigenous History Month
June is Indigenous History Month in Canada. A time to reflect and act on the history of interactions between settlers and Indigenous people. More and more Canadians want to learn the truth about the destruction of the cultures and languages of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and the theft of their lands.
Indigenous History Month
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TBT: Thoughts on AI
A Throwback Thursday post. First off, the thing that is currently being called AI is not really AI, depending on your definition of AI. It’s not conscious. It’s uncannily able to resemble consciousness because humans tend to attribute consciousness to things that science says are not conscious. I’m not even sure if it would pass…
TBT: Thoughts on AI
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