Efficacy versus values: why AI tempts us

Let's get into all our feels about AI. 🌀

In this episode, I share some of the messages I've gotten from people who are using AI but feeling bad about it.

And I talk through three reasons I think many of us (especially listeners of this show) feel so much tension about these technologies.

Tune in for a lot of empathy and even more clarity. Then join our community conversation about AI in the Clubhouse!

MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

• Find all the episodes in our AI series here
• The Tension of Platforms & Why I Haven’t Left Substack (Yet)
• Cut Off the Spigot: ChatGPT Alternatives
• What is Moral Injury? (from the Moral Injury Project)
• AI is African Intelligence: The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back (from 404 Media)
• The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy
• AI has an environmental problem (from the UN)
• AI Doesn’t Reduce Work— It Intensifies It (from HBR)
• If you want to learn about ethical approaches to AI, I recommend:
  • Shae Omonijo's work — Find her on Substack or listen to Critical Thinking in the Age of AI (on Apple & Spotify)
  • & Aggressively Human Podcast with Jessica Lackey and Meg Casebolt

 
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