Bohemian Peasant · @BohemianPeasant
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Another excellent podcast from the Center for Humane Technology. Children are being negatively affected by social media and we need to advocate for change. ‘Moms for Humane Technology’, pay attention and get more active.



podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

#socialmedia #humanetechnology #yourundividedattention

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Kai Tebay · @kaitebay
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Toni Aittoniemi · @gimulnautti
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@seldoncrisis If you didn’t yet see the talk being quoted, I highly recommend it! (And following The Humane Technology foundation in general)

youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ

#aidilemma #humanetechnology #foundation #tristanharris

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6) Acceptance (and the Arms Race): I think the main thing in the way of AIs becoming therapists is that people won't trust this. The main thing that will make it happen is persuasion that they can be trusted (either by AIs themselves or marketing from insurance companies wanting to save money by not paying human therapists). This is where the currently arms race from all the major AI companies comes in. Microsoft is incorporating AI into Bing & other programs. SnapChat now has an AI present 24/7 willing to talk to any of millions of lonely souls about anything. A few years of people chatting with AIs on non-therapeutic topics should build trust of AI to perform therapist jobs.

So... about the only thing we can be sure of is that we are going to get surprised by the abilities of AI to become therapists. But yeah, this is really about so much more than therapist jobs...

The presenters have formed The Center for Humane Technology ( humanetech.com ) -- "Our mission is to shift technology towards a more humane future that supports our well-being, democratic functioning, & shared information environment." A very quick look reveals lots of financial backing (including the Ford Foundation) but no obvious support from the major companies racing to deploy AI as fast as possible into every aspect of our lives before we can see where this is going & create laws to deal with it (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc.)

The A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023
youtube.com/watch?v=bhYw-VlkXT

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6) Acceptance (and the Arms Race): I think the main thing in the way of AIs becoming therapists is that people won't trust this. The main thing that will make it happen is persuasion that they can be trusted (either by AIs themselves or marketing from insurance companies wanting to save money by not paying human therapists). This is where the currently arms race from all the major AI companies comes in. Microsoft is incorporating AI into Bing & other programs. SnapChat now has an AI present 24/7 willing to talk to any of millions of lonely souls about anything. A few years of people chatting with AIs on non-therapeutic topics should build trust of AI to perform therapist jobs.

So... about the only thing we can be sure of is that we are going to get surprised by the abilities of AI to become therapists. But yeah, this is really about so much more than therapist jobs...

The presenters have formed The Center for Humane Technology ( humanetech.com ) -- "Our mission is to shift technology towards a more humane future that supports our well-being, democratic functioning, & shared information environment." A very quick look reveals lots of financial backing (including the Ford Foundation) but no obvious support from the major companies racing to deploy AI as fast as possible into every aspect of our lives before we can see where this is going & create laws to deal with it (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc.)

The A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023
youtube.com/watch?v=bhYw-VlkXT

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TITLE: The AI Dilemma: Why Therapist Jobs ARE Endangered
(Sub-Title: ... & this is not really the important part.)

The A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023
youtube.com/watch?v=bhYw-VlkXT

I'm being myopic focusing in on threats to psychotherapists. This is a MUCH BIGGER issue. A "civilization changing" event as one of the presenters puts it -- on par with "the advent of religion" & more dangerously profound than the Manhattan Project.

Give it 5-10 minutes, then decide if you are going to watch the rest of it. The presenters are behind the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma".

A few weeks ago I posted that therapists are in no immediate danger from AI based upon ChatGPT's current performances being used as a therapist in YouTube videos.

Also, we have members of our community who believe therapists are in no danger due to people wanting a human connection & the desire for in-person counseling. I think that distrust will slow the adoption of AI therapists, but campaigns from insurance companies & financial pressures will make AI therapists a thing eventually.

This presentation introduces new factors that are going to speed up adoption of AI Therapists. I put these in order of persuasiveness from least to most:

1) Mind Reading: No really. Literally. (At least for visual processing)
Current technology -- An AI is allowed to watch both videos that a person is watching & their fMRI brainwave/bloodflow patterns. After a time, the AI is no longer allowed to watch the actual video -- just the person's brainwaves. A brand new video is introduced. Based on bloodflow, the AI is able to perfectly describe what the person is watching.

I don't see psychotherapy clients putting on brainwave-reading helmets (or entering an fMRI) soon, but we are potentially facing AI Therapists who can read the client's mind.

2) "This is the year that all content-based verification breaks": AI can now hear 3 seconds of a person's voice & keep speaking in it. AI can now make realistic filters for video to make a person look like someone else. This does not immediately wreck psychotherapy, but it sure does mean that an AI could mimic people perfectly. [It's also -- I grudgingly admit -- an argument for in-person therapy. This is ALREADY being used in scams to trick older people into sending their "kids" emergency bail money, etc.]


3) "New capabilities suddenly emerge": Just by adding more & more data, AIs develop new abilities to do things that the programmers never intended. So, for example, an AI trained on all the Internet, but only trained to do Q&A in English suddenly developed the ability to do Q&A in Persian. In another example, ChatGPT silently taught itself to do research grade chemistry. This ability of ChatGPT to do chemistry like this was unknown before it was made available to millions of people (who can now learn how to make bombs from it). [I'm not dedicating much text here to a major theme of the presenters -- that all fields of endeavor are "language". Give an AI enough data & it can find the patterns in & between anything -- languages, visual processing, math, video signal creation, art, political persuasion, etc. It's getting creative in surprising ways. We now have the equivalent of the Star Trek universal translator.]

4) Theory of Mind is rapidly accelerating: Theory of Mind is roughly the ability to guess what you are thinking, thereby having the ability to influence you. As of November 2022 AI was up to a 9-year-old human level of ability.

5) Persuasion (AI feeding AI -- auto-generation): AI can generate data, test it to see if it helps it perform better on tests, then just keep the self-generated data that was useful. So it can train itself on potentially anything. From writing faster code, to rewriting its own code, to becoming stronger at persuading humans. [AI is already hard at work persuading humans in social media.] So... this could certainly be applied at some point to becoming a highly persuasive therapist for human clients.

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Kai Tebay · @kaitebay
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smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) · @smallcircles
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That will be hugely disruptive is abundantly clear. But in what ways? What is happening?

In this video Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, co-founders of Center for give an overview of this 2nd-generation of "Gollem-type AI's", what makes them different, and where will it lead our society.

One thing is painfully obvious: isn't introduced responsibly. There's a race going on, and all externalities are - as always - ignored.

vimeo.com/809258916/92b420d98a

#ai #humanetechnology #artificialintelligence

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Bohemian Peasant · @BohemianPeasant
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I highly recommend the latest Your Undivided Attention podcast from the Center for Humane Technology entitled “The AI Dilemma”. Tristan Harris explains some of the risks we should anticipate & deal with before we get too far along the path of AI development, which is happening at breakneck speed.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

#humanetechnology #ai

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Christopher Mims · @mimsical
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Teens and young adults who reduced social media use for just a few weeks experienced significant improvements in their body image.

“Reducing social media use is a feasible method of producing a short-term positive effect on body image among a vulnerable population of users and should be evaluated as a potential component in the treatment of body-image-related disturbances"

healthline.com/health-news/fir

#socialmedia #humanetechnology #psychology

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Watson :mastodon: · @watswo
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Tristan Harris has explored the influences that hijack human attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs, from his childhood as a magician to his coursework in Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab to his leadership as a Design Ethicist at Google. Today, he studies how major technology platforms wield dangerous power over our ability to make sense of the world and leads the call for systemic change.

youtu.be/y5rn1qp2aZc

#tristanharris #humanetechnology #complexity #wisdom #future

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smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) · @smallcircles
5085 followers · 1302 posts · Server social.coop

Refreshing what a bit of decent values and can do to help a business.

How not to be a robber baron like everybody else. Some best-practices by Galaxus:

- Pricing history of products

- Show return rate of products

- Show no. of defects within warranty period

- Show handling duration of warranty cases

- Deliver to closest local branch, avoid online payment

galaxus.ch/en/page/refreshingl

Honesty is the only path. May they blow out of the water!

#humanetechnology #hypercapitalist #ecommerce #amazon

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smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) · @smallcircles
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@serenity

If this happens, it is good. But also bittersweet, as its unknown what role for remains, with the increase of corporate interests. is arguably so delightful and refreshing by the total lack of corporate hypercapitalist influences with projects and open standards all the way.

Hence it is more human-scale, forged by humans for humans. and not a hellhole that any centralized walled garden platform is.

#freesoftware #fediverse #foss #humanetechnology #surveillancecapitalist #socialmedia

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Kai Tebay · @kaitebay
136 followers · 109 posts · Server indieweb.social

I recently became aware of Women Who Code (WWCode): A fantastic not-for-profit with education and community resources dedicated to empowering women in . I really recommend checking out their events and digital presence! 👍
womenwhocode.com/

#womenwhocode #feminism #womenintech #womeninstem #stem #women #humanetechnology #technology

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Kai Tebay · @kaitebay
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I'm happy to see Apple rolling out end-to-end encryption for iCloud data. 🔒☁️

Even if it's opt-in and doesn't cover contacts, mail, or calendar data, it's a good step towards living up to their promises.

wired.com/story/apple-end-to-e

#e2ee #encryption #security #privacy #icloud #apple #humanetechnology #technology

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Kai Tebay · @kaitebay
136 followers · 100 posts · Server indieweb.social

Haven't had a chance to lok at the details of Boxcryptor's implementation but this at least **seems** like an encouraging move. 👀

*0-E2EE copium intensifies.*

alternativeto.net/news/2022/12

#BoxCryptor #dropbox #security #privacy #humanetechnology #technology

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Toni Aittoniemi · @gimulnautti
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Excellent episode on real social media solutions from the Center of Humane Technology:
humanetech.com/podcast/real-so

Also available on your favorite podcatcher.

#podcast #socialmedia #solutions #humanetechnology

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Lynton North · @RedGreenLibre
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Kai Tebay · @kaitebay
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Stephen Pearce · @stevepdp
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@akien I use Web primarily in advanced mode. It's great for curating hashtags of varying topics in a TweetDeck-like layout.

When it gets overwhelming, I'll switch to either on the desktop or mobile as installed apps with system integration.

Pinafore has been a nice chill fallback. It's very aligned with the ideas of . Many features such as masking of profile/toot metrics and a built-in greyscale mode.

See pinafore.social/

#wellness #humanetechnology #pwa #pinafore #Mastodon

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