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The Future
Optimism about the future is only warranted when we can objectively look at the past and choose differently for the future.
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Hype Cycles
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OpenAI used Kenyan workers to label and identify harmful content. The work was so traumatic that the contract was canceled 8 months early. The pay - $2 per hour. Future contracts are also refused.
Moral Panic
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Many lawsuits mentioned above involve the scraping of data from public information online. This is despite copyright protections listed on the information. While this might sound like a "them" problem. You are one of them and your information was included also.
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Profit as Motivation
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Water usage is a significant impact of artificial intelligence because it is used to cool data centers. However, that's not the only environmental impact. Others concerns are emissions, waste disposal, energy consumption, and land use.
AI is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water >
Optimism or Doomsday Predictions
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From being inaccessible based on assistive needs and language/voice barriers, to the persistent lack of gender diversity in the tech industry, to the unfair consequences faced by marginalized communities, societal challenges like these are all too familiar in the realm of AI.
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