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Chris Gilliard questions the potential of AI chatbots touted by their creators and promoters, highlighting their vulnerability to misuse by fascists, racists, transphobes, and other bad-faith actors.
Just Design: Pasts, Presents, and Future Trajectories of Technology
In this field review, Nassim Parvin presents provisional definitions for design and justice, overviews the literature on the intersection of tech design and justice, and offers two necessary conditions for advancing social justice in and through design.
Visibility, Race, and Public Space: Technologies of Erasure on Digital Platforms
In her essay, Jordan Kraemer examines the racial dynamics within community activists in a Brooklyn neighborhood through their interactions on digital platforms during the pandemic.
Is the Next Misinformation Crisis Fear-Based and Local?
Journalist Lam Thuy Vo examines how the demise of local news and the rise of neighborhood platforms may be contributing to the next moral panic over crime.
In the classroom of the future—if there still are any—it’s easy to imagine the endpoint of an arms race: an artificial intelligence that generates the day’s lessons and prompts, a […]
ChatGPT was hailed as one of 2022’s most impressive technological innovations upon its release last November. The powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can generate text on almost any topic or […]
Abstract, futuristic or science-fiction-inspired images of AI hinder the understanding of the technology’s already significant societal and environmental impacts. Images relating machine intelligence to human intelligence set unrealistic expectations and […]
By Chris Gilliard, Pete Rorabaugh
May 4, 2023 - May 5, 2023