Watch this brilliantly simple explanation of what the combination of AI/machine learning and social media has succeeded in doing to society over the past decade by Filipino journalist and bona fide hero Maria Ressa.
The AI crisis is not about some Terminator-esque sci-fi apocalypse. It’s about a technology that is being used by humans against humans. The Terminator connection is a helpful sales tool for Big Tech to scare the US government (ie, Trump) into funnelling money their way and cockblocking government regulation.
AI isn’t the problem. It’s the humans currently in control of AI that are the problem.
John Kannenberg is an artistic researcher whose work investigates sounds as museological objects. Via an acoustemological approach, he considers the histories and cultures surrounding sounds, the technologies that generate or record them, and the auditors who hear or listen to them. He holds a PhD in sound & museums from the University of the Arts London, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art degree and Graduate Certification in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. He is Director and Chief Curator of The Museum of Portable Sound. Learn more about his work at johnkannenberg.com.
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