In this article Robin Hill suggests something that may seem both obvious and strange at the same time: that our artificial intelligence systems might not cut the world up in the same way we do, or that they may not use the same features to cluster concepts as we do. The example she gives is… Continue reading Studying the mereologies of AI
Month: July 2023
Reading with bots
It seems obvious that anyone who is not using generative AI in their day job is missing out. There is a wealth of interesting opportunities, and new ways of working that need to be explored and analysed. What I have been playing around with lately is what it means to read with the help of… Continue reading Reading with bots
Invisible commons
Are there some commons that we should protect that we are just not aware of? Well, for the longest time the idea that there was a "climate" to protect was not obvious to people - and the overall discussion we now have about climate change required a concept to focus on, and climate ended up… Continue reading Invisible commons
Some policy problems in artificial agency (Agency and policy I)
A further step in understanding the challenges artificial intelligence will pose for public policy and regulation is understanding the role, construction and problems of artificial agency of different kinds. The models we are discussing today are mostly prompted in different ways, and so are in a way easy to regulate, since they only do what… Continue reading Some policy problems in artificial agency (Agency and policy I)