Lou

Reblog to hug prev

The old pasture gate at work is absolutely thriving with various species of lichen

“Another crucial driver of AI refusal is AI’s reshaping of what it means to be human. Not only is AI altering how we work, how we think, or how we create, it is reconfiguring what it means to live a meaningful life. The kind of life deemed meaningful, within the AI narrative, is one that is efficient, fast, and intelligent. This is simply unconvincing to many. For them, AI promises not emancipation or new powers — such as that of superintelligence — but a further diminishing of their ability to be in tune with what actually matters to them: community, care, growth. Fueling this bad feeling further is what the philosopher of technology, Günther Anders, called “Promethean shame,” whereby we feel the shame of being insufficient and vulnerable in the face of a perfect, efficient machine. The AI promoters are already telling us that without fully embracing AI, we’re second-class citizens. The contemporary refusal of AI is a struggle against this promise of a particular kind of human life secondary to that of machine intelligence.”