When there’s innovation every few days, how do we know if a new technology is likely to serve humanity well?
We’ve thought about that a lot at CHT over the years, and we’ve come up with some principles that you can apply to many different products and situations, even novel ones.
In this free talk, we’ll share the latest, more concise version of that thinking with you because we’re all going to need it as 2024 unfolds.
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Thank you for framing all of these issues so well. As educators, it's time for us to expand our paradigm and take instruction in critical thinking to another level. We really need to create ways to integrate empathy and nuanced thinking into every single course so that students can develop these skills. It feels daunting because with AI and machine learning, everything is changing at such an accelerated pace…how are we to keep up?
Very much enjoyed the valuable models and frameworks for thinking about ethical design – build – implement. Is it possible to have the link to the slides from the course?
Also:
– Tech shapes humans
– Humans shape society
– society shapes tech
Fantastic content, as always. So much we need to work on, hope this reaches as many people as possible.
Human being, technology.
The choice is of care.
Care comes before value, try it out?
Are you caring for a dead thing, or a living person?
One of commodity or one of growing awareness?
Are you ‘feeding the babies’ or ‘feeding the machinery’?
Thank you. A wonderful contribution to the augmentation of humanity. Apart from the valuable content, the speaker is to be commended for their amazing communication skills. Beautiful connect and presentation on what is the key issue for humanity. Our What, Our WHY and Our How.
Technology is the name that we give to the materialization of relationships. That's where you have to start. Not with the objects. The objects are the end result of relationships between humans, non-humans, places, things, etc…. The so called problem with technology is always a problem with humans and their relations which only partially involve other humans.. Characterizing the problem as technology and humans or humanizing tehcnology is like saying you want to humanize the relations that humans have with their relations to make them more human. You are engaged in obfuscating reifications. Humanity is another misleading term. Imagine you are a Mayan peasant trying to eke out a living growing corn on a rocky hillslope in the rugged highlands of Guatemala. Imagine this person watching this presentation. What meaning could "humanity" possibly have for them? "Humanity" is not for humanity. It is a term that has meaning only for a very specific demographic that is affluent and feels no particular loyalty to any place or nation. It is a demographic of ideologues who think of themselves as "citizens of the world" and who de-coupled themselves long ago from any ethnos, any territory. Their viewpoint is not even the earth. They do not stand on terra firma to look up at the sky. They look at our planet as if they were in space where there is no life. They do not view our precious planet as their home. The place they consider home is space. A lifeless place.