2025-05-26
At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work — A tale as old as capitalism: you create the tools that are used to disrupt other people's lives, only to have capital then turn those tools on their creators. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b... [image]
New York Times
Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming less forgiving about deadlines
Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think.
2024-12-19
“AI developers and researchers don't really know much about the sources of the data they are using. AI's data collection practices are immature... Massive data sets often lack clear information about what is in them and where it came from.” www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/ 1...
MIT Technology Review
An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa
that's reshaping the infrastructures of our world in ways that reflect the interests of those big corporations.” Niall Firth / @niallfirth : New findings show how the sources of da...
2024-12-09
Fascinating, long essay by Evgeny Morozov exploring how the history of AI gives us a technology designed for instrumental reason, and how some alternative choices could have given—and still could give—us very different and far better forms of human-centred AI: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the- ai...
Boston Review
A look at generative AI's impact, its structural issue of concentrated power among just a few companies, and utopian questions over an alternative vision for AI
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where's the utopian vision for what it could be?
2024-12-06
Sure some might say that tech elite are a cartoonishly evil group of cynical paranoiacs who are totally disconnected from a shared reality with everybody else. But on the other hand, let me introduce you to the latest startup in the Peter Thiel family: SAURON. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... …
Washington Post
Sauron, which is touting a waiting list of tech CEOs and VCs for its home security system that incorporates drones and facial recognition, raised a $18M seed
By incorporating drones, facial recognition and high-tech sensors, Sauron aims to super-charge home security … Bluesky: @stephencsmith , @willoremus.com , @siracusa.mastodon … , @t...