Product manager and undercover academic - responsible innovation & tech ethics - Fellow @FU_Berlin - @Medialse PhD - https://teapawt.org/t.co/EcTbaLTEMU
Berlin, Germany
Joined April 2011
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Europe is at the forefront of regulating technologies it didn’t create. The prevailing approach assumes that constraining how, where, or by whom technology can be used, will mitigate negative outcomes.
If you’re in the AI space check out what the remarkable @PhilippKoralus is up to, and while you are at it get a copy of his book: academic.oup.com/book/45443
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Excited for the official announcement of HAI Lab at the University of Oxford, due to launch in the Fall, which I will direct as the inaugural McCord Professor of Philosophy and AI. 🧵
Special thanks for their support to @JulieUldam @Robin_Mansellx @PhilippKoralus @MediaLSE @JMGoteborg @AmitSchejter @DiscourseCentre @gurvy100 @ZeMKI_Bremen @JohannaMoeller @davidgcrouch @NickAnstead @UlrikaMHedman @peterdalle @BroughtonMicova @Maria_Kyriakid @CharlieBeckett
I am delighted that @Routledge_MandC @routledgebooks just released a paperback edition, of which I have a few author copies to give away (DM me if interested) and of course I’d be delighted if you request a copy for your library. routledge.com/Communication-…
However, these observations are not usually considered valid normative reasons to indulge in drinking or avoid running.
My book focuses on how technology shapes our social world and the implications this has for our normative vision.
The correlation between alcohol consumption and enjoyable evenings, or between running marathons and physical discomfort, is generally accepted as evidence that drinking causes pleasure and running causes pain.
Aligning on a normative vision for technology is hard, because unlike empirical inquiry, there is no generally accepted method for answering questions about ‘correct’ norms or values.
Movable type put scribes out of work, mechanised looms did the same to weavers. Clearly these technologies were bad for the interests of some groups. But that didn’t make them a bad thing in general.
These aren’t billiard balls transferring kinetic energy.
The belief that technology has a direct, monocausal impact, is usually accompanied by the assumption that the desirable end-points of regulation are self-evident.
The Protestant reformation, and all the change it wrought, would not have been possible without movable type printing: It allowed information to diffuse at scale. Obviously it would be silly to say that movable type ‘caused’ the reformation.
or portrays it as an autonomous force in the world (AI needs inbuilt guardrails). But these are at best low fidelity accounts of technology’s social impact. Instead, think of technology as affording possibilities, from which both beneficial and detrimental behaviours can emerge.
But that’s the wrong mental model for thinking about technology's complex impact on society.
This conventional view errs in two ways: it either reduces technology to a mere tool (don’t drive it to fast, or use it to harm),
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With @vinnylarouge1 found human-like judgment mistakes to increase in GPT-4, even as it also got better at human-like correct judgments. Perhaps no surprise, since GPT is learning from human text. Humans in humans out? arxiv.org/abs/2303.17276
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Die momentane Stromerzeugung in Deutschland ist mit 435g CO2 / kWh so mit das dreckigste, was Europa zu bieten hat.
Frankreich: 114 g / kWh.
Wie schauen Grüne auf solche Daten und denken: ja, #Atomausstieg war und ist richtig?
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Die Tatsache, dass das Ganze auch noch aus dem Präsidialamt geleakt wurde und die Steinmeier-Berater stolz auf ihren Chef sind wie hart er Selenskyj am Telefon mitten im Krieg angeht, ist einfach nur beschämend.
So geht man nicht mit dem Präsidenten eines Landes um, das von Russland angegriffen wird. Frank-Walter Steinmeier war in seinem Ego wg der Ausladung so gekränkt, dass er selbst sich wichtiger war als alles andere. Peinlich für einen Bundespräsidenten. Bericht: @derspiegel
