Because of what I do for a profession and what I feel like I can influence through my actions, most of my writing about AI is about how to do things or what I'm learning about it.
I'd rather show the positive influence I want to have than tell people about it. So my energy is mainly focused on learning and sharing what I learn. And having a lot of new learnings is fun and exciting.
And... I spent as much of my life as a working musician as I have a software engineer. The dynamics around copyright and intellectual property have been extremely personal to me over the years. Watching the judge's ruling in the Anthropic case was predictably disappointing.
I'm also queer, trans, and disabled. I am very frequently impacted by biased data sets that don't represent me or my interests in ways that impact my life because of how they impact government policy, corporate policy, machine learning algorithms, etc.
I'm not strictly neutral or positive on AI anymore than I am on the internet, hardware manufacturing, expansion of data centers and internet infrastructure, or basically anything. I care about nuance, I care about our environment, and I care about people who are different from me and impacted in ways I'm not by these things.
This is why I recently referred to so many AI conversations as full of "identity politics", the identities usually being pro-ai and anti-ai and intersecting identities with those two (for example, if you're queer and liberal you're supposed to be anti-ai generally, if you're an artist you should be anti-ai, etc).
So here are some of the things I care about, some of what we can do about them, in regards to AI beyond just sharing learnings. Dr. Fatima did such a good job of summing things up for a broad audience.
Because of what I do for a profession and what I feel like I can influence through my actions, most of my writing about AI is about how to do things or what I'm learning about it.
I'd rather show the positive influence I want to have than tell people about it. So my energy is mainly focused on learning and sharing what I learn. And having a lot of new learnings is fun and exciting.
And... I spent as much of my life as a working musician as I have a software engineer. The dynamics around copyright and intellectual property have been extremely personal to me over the years. Watching the judge's ruling in the Anthropic case was predictably disappointing.
I'm also queer, trans, and disabled. I am very frequently impacted by biased data sets that don't represent me or my interests in ways that impact my life because of how they impact government policy, corporate policy, machine learning algorithms, etc.
I'm not strictly neutral or positive on AI anymore than I am on the internet, hardware manufacturing, expansion of data centers and internet infrastructure, or basically anything. I care about nuance, I care about our environment, and I care about people who are different from me and impacted in ways I'm not by these things.
This is why I recently referred to so many AI conversations as full of "identity politics", the identities usually being pro-ai and anti-ai and intersecting identities with those two (for example, if you're queer and liberal you're supposed to be anti-ai generally, if you're an artist you should be anti-ai, etc).
So here are some of the things I care about, some of what we can do about them, in regards to AI beyond just sharing learnings. Dr. Fatima did such a good job of summing things up for a broad audience.