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"Papers in AI ethics implicitly see AI as an inevitability, as a natural next step or progression of technology. AI is “better” than pre-AI technologies, hence the very task ethics has to accomplish is to ensure “ethical” or “trustworthy AI”. However, it is wrong to assume that the goal is ethical AI. Rather, the primary aim from which detailed norms can be derived should be a peaceful, sustainable, and just society. Hence, AI ethics must dare to ask the question where in an ethical society one should use AI and its inherent principle of predictive modeling and classification at all. It is a major weakness of AI ethics to simply condone AI systems being applied in more and more areas of society, merely because it fits existing (dys-)functional logics of companies, schools, police stations, and the like."

Hagendorff, T. Blind spots in AI ethics. AI Ethics 2, 851–867 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00122-8

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Een van de leukste bands die ik de laatste tijd ontdekt heb is het Canadese Men I Trust. Vaak een beetje dromerige pop, maar soms ook met een donkerder new wave sausje, zoals in het nummer hieronder.

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UX designers, engineers, and the iPhone's co-designer are reassessing the priorities behind the ways we interact with apps and devices.

https://thereboot.com/fixing-techs-design-problem/

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This song, and the whole album VWETO III: great new work by Georgia Anne Muldrow (a.k.a. Jyoti), as usual balancing somewhere on the jazz / soul / pop spectrum.

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Suddenly academics became video editors – mostly bad ones – and our students turned to YouTube, because on YouTube you can get a better explanation of the same thing (for free I might add). Universities turned from communities of learning and collaboration into B-grade content providers. This is the death march of higher education. Universities are not content providers. Somewhere along this unplanned journey we lost our way.

The philosopher John Dewey told us that an educational experience – what he called a community of inquiry – requires a cognitive presence (the learner), a social presence (the learning community) and a teaching presence (the professor).

Academics aren’t content creators, and it’s regressive to make them so, David Kellermann.

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Now that the weather is slowly getting better in the northern hemisphere, here's eight minutes of sultry sunny vibes.

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An amazing example of designing for a real need and understanding your (niche) audience.

The ‘Yayagram’ is a “machine that helps our beloved elders to keep communicating with their grandchildren” by Manu (@mrcatacroquer on Twitter).

See the twitter thread for the full details, from the background to the technological implementation: https://twitter.com/mrcatacroquer/status/1386318806411325440

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