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).
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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 registering same-sex marriages, or baking a cake for same-sex weddings, or allowing anti-vaxxers to opt out of getting vaccines?
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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 would wish to avoid.
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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.
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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.
(more…)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 glance that this is a human made creation, not made by AI.
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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 robots of older science fiction stories are generally presented as benevolent but misunderstood, or on a different trajectory from humans (as is the case in Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, where the AI has retreated from earth and lives on Earth’s artificial satellites).
Now that something like AI has been created, in the form of machine learning (ML) and large language models (LLMs), some people have already started to believe that it could become conscious, or that it is already conscious. Some people find this fascinating, others find it creepy.
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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 the Turing Test, although that has been criticized as insufficient for detecting consciousness.
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Repost: What a 98-Year Old Children’s Book Teaches Us About AI
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the book: The Trumpeter of Krakow, published by Eric P. Kelly in 1928. Set in the 15th century, it follows a Polish family fleeing their home in Ukraine after it has been destroyed by Tartars and making their way to Krakow. … The protagonist of this novel aimed at young adults, is, predictably, a young adult. Joseph Charnetski flees with his mother and father to Krakow with their only possession: a large pumpkin.
What a 98-Year Old Children’s Book Teaches Us About AICall for contributions
If the question of AI interests you, check out our call for contributions to a new anthology:
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No AI slop here
Yesterday I was asked a great question: whether the featured image of the post calling for anthology contributions is AI-generated. To the best of my knowledge, it is not. It’s a public domain image that I found on Pixabay, by searching for “steampunk robot” and filtering out Al-generated images. If you zoom in far enough all the little details make sense. I tweaked the colours in Canva to match the colour scheme of this website. The art is by Bildmonteur.
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Call for contributions: Pagan, Heathen, animist, and/or polytheist responses to AI
I’d like to see Pagan, Heathen, animist, and/or polytheist responses to artificial intelligence (AI) — but our way is to platform multiple perspectives on an issue.
AI is shaping up to have a significant impact on human society and our relationship with Nature, each other, and our humanity.
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TBT: Thoughts on AI
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Repost: What a 98-Year Old Children’s Book Teaches Us About AI
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No AI slop here
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