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This is my scrapbook. You can also call it a 'commonplace book', digital garden, second brain, or whatever metaphor works for you.

Basically, here I collect anything nice that I find on the web (from music videos to interesting design cases for my work), and sometimes add a sentence or two. It's basically a public bookmarking site for me.

Stuff posted here should be linked with my mastodon-account as well, so you can follow me there if you prefer.

I also have a 'proper' and more static website.

sanderspek.eu

mastodon.green/@sanderspek

www.linkedin.com/in/sanderspek/

Sander Spek
 

Blind spots in AI ethics

"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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Sander Spek
 

Yayagram

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).

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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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Digital transformation and the Technology Fallacy

“There was one path to digital transformation, and it was through a defined set of cultural characteristics that are not unfamiliar: actively increasing agility, encouraging experiments and continual learning, recognizing and rewarding collaboration, accepting an appropriate level of risk of failure, and increasingly organizing around cross-functional teams. If you want to start somewhere, this is where you should start. It doesn't matter what flashy technology you have in place; if you don't have these things, you're not going to get very far.”

(Gerald Kane (2019) The Technology Fallacy, Research-Technology Management, 62:6, 44-49, DOI: 10.1080/08956308.2019.1661079)

Interesting insights, or maybe evidence-based confirmation, of what it takes to do real digital transformation: an open mind, iteration, interdisciplinarity and collaboration.

 

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