Today’s Plan:
- Welcome / Game
- Syllabus
- Reading
- For Next Session
A Quote from Douglas Adams
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Syllabus
Here is a link to the syllabus.
For Next Session
Read: Ethan Mollick, chapters from Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Write: a 300 word response to Mollick (single-spaced). I would like your response to address a few things:
- What are your experiences with AI? Have you used it (statistics tell us you probably have)? In what capacity (it is fine if you have used it to complete assignments)? Are you working toward a major/field that is likely to use AI? Are you an artist who feels like they might be impacted by AI? Are you already working with it proficiently or personally or professionally? You are taking a paragraph to build up a bit of ethos (telling us who you are and placing yourself in an AI discussion)
- What do you make of Mollick’s claim that “focus[ing] on apocalyptic events robs most of us of our agency and responsibility?”? What agency? What responsibility? Why does Mollick believe we are stripped of it? Why might he be right? Why might he be wrong? [DO BOTH]
- Explain to me in simple terms what “alignment” is and why we have to care about it. When we hear that world, what questions should we be asking ourselves?
