PinnedMember-onlyIs ChatGPT the Future of Cheating or the Future of Teaching?Some Experts Argue that the Chatbot Can be a Beneficial Educational Tool. Teachers and Schools are Being Forced to Adapt to Students Using AI Chatbot ChatGPT. ChatGPT, the cutting-edge chatbot from OpenAI that was released in November 2022, can solve math equations, write a history term paper, compose a sonnet…5 min read5 min read
Dec 10, 2022Member-onlyChatGPT: The Evolution of Higher Education and Content CreationChatGPT is one of the most brilliant innovations I’ve seen in a long time. Powered by AI, it can write decent — but not terrific — short and long form…AI1 min readAI1 min read
Nov 18, 2022Member-onlyAI Predicting Our FutureAS YOU READ these words, there are likely dozens of algorithms making predictions about you. It was probably an algorithm that determined that you would be exposed to this article because it predicted you would read it. Algorithmic predictions can determine whether you get a loan or a job or…8 min read8 min read
Jun 2, 2022Member-onlyDear Tech Company,Be Better. Do Better. TEN YEARS AGO, a young tech entrepreneur sat down with a pen and paper and calculated that one of his inventions was responsible for wasting the equivalent of more than a million human lifetimes every day. …Big Tech10 min readBig Tech10 min read
Feb 16, 2022Welcome To The Great ConstraintOne year into the Pandemic, when my daughter screamed my name three times to tell me that she was sick, really sick, I ran from a Zoom meeting being conducted in my spare room to her classroom a.k.a her bedroom, and quickly realized that she might be seriously ill. She…5 min read5 min read
Jan 3, 2022An Urgent Call To Address Racial Injustice in AIResearchers demand that those who work in AI consider racism, gender, and other structural inequalities explicitly. FORMS OF AUTOMATION such as artificial intelligence increasingly inform decisions about who gets hired, arrested, or receives health care. …Ethical Ai8 min readEthical Ai8 min read
Aug 30, 2021Under His EyeApple Just Wants To Do What’s Best For Us And Our Children I knew this day would come. It was inevitable. Apple has officially announced the launch of an iPhone update meant to protect children from predators who use communication tools to recruit and exploit them, and limit the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). Apple said its…Surveillance8 min readSurveillance8 min read
Aug 25, 2021Clicks Against HumanityThe Questionable Ethics of Persuasive Design The evolution of social media and the stealth development of intelligent and sophisticated technology, created by the largest corporations in the world like Facebook and Apple, continue to revolutionize the globes’ ability to connect in ways never possible in the past. However, they no longer align with humanity’s best interests…Algorithms17 min readAlgorithms17 min read
Aug 22, 2021The Future of WorkAlmost All Work Will be Instrumentally and Technologically Augmented. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places” Ernest Hemingway. Pre-Pandemic work was already being widely dispersed over the past decade as technology increasingly advanced machines and communication devices such as computers, audio VPAs, smartphones, and…14 min read14 min read
Aug 16, 2021Alexa, Can You Hear Me?Gendering Voice and Language in AI Virtual Assistants (VPAs) Article Submitted to Valparaiso University Graduate Department of English Studies and Communications With assigned female names, voices, and characters, artificially intelligent virtual personal assistants (VPAs) such as Alexa, Cortana, and Siri were decisively gendered females until recently. By exploring the various…Vpa17 min readVpa17 min read
