- Published on February 26, 2024
- In AI Features
Is AI Disconnected from Reality?
"Generative AI is going to become a tool that managers use to push human-like work of worse quality, more quickly, for less money."
- By Tasmia Ansari
Ali Alkhatib was frustrated that the tech reality he was experiencing and could see was not being put out there adequately. The researcher, working at the intersection of AI and society, has been closely studying digital culture for a decade.
The former director for the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco has been pointing out the problems in technology – from how gig work disempowers workers to the power that AI wields in getting them increasingly unhinged from reality.
“We allow these systems to make decisions without anyone thinking about what the consequences are, which have dysfunctions totally unaccountable to people,” stated Alkhatib in an exclusive interview with AIM. He believes that in today’s age where AI is present in our
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Tasmia Ansari
Tasmia is a tech journalist at AIM, looking to bring a fresh perspective to emerging technologies and trends in data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
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