[AI Skeptics] Disabling Intelligences, chapter 5
Hello! This week we're finishing Disabling Intelligences by Rua Williams with chapter 5: "A Just AI Toolkit".
special guest
This week we'll have a guest: Dr. Rua Williams will be joining us during our video chat to discuss Disabling Intelligences. I've got lots of questions and thoughts that I can't wait to discuss with them; I hope you'll join us at the usual time (Thursday at 8pm EDT).
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Ok, let's get back to the rest of the thing.
routine stuff
As a reminder, there are numerous ways to keep up with the reading group:
- newsletter: I send updates on Mondays and Thursdays. In the Monday updates, I'll point to what to read; in the Thursday updates, I'll send some reflections and an icebreaker question to think about, and a reminder of where & how to join the video chat.
- video chats: Thursdays at 8pm ET we have a video chat on jitsi1 where we talk about this week's readings.
- group chat: if you want to chat with people on signal, we have a pretty active group chat. You can join the signal group chat here.
next book and start date
Our next book will be Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser. You can order it from the publisher's page, or from bookshop.org.
After this week, we'll take a couple of weeks to check out some podcast episodes, video essays, academic papers, and other stuff around the web that I didn't have the time (or couldn't find a good entry point) to share. I'm going to use this as an opportunity to reset a bit, and also give people some time to get the next book, since an informal poll in Signal suggested a number of people are either waiting for (or still need to order) our next book.
I'm expecting to start Techno-Negative on June 29.
I have ideas for what we'll read after Techno-Negative, but if you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
last thoughts
If you come across something you think we'd like to read, I'd love to hear about it; contact me.
Okay, that's it; see you Thursday to discuss the chapter and chat with Dr. Williams.
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I use Jitsi for video chats. Jitsi is a free web-based video chat service kind of like Zoom, but it's free, absent of generative AI stuff, and not connected to people's work accounts. ↩
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If you've made (written, recorded, etc...) something you'd like to share - a zine, an blog post, an academic paper, a video, or whatever else - email me or message me on signal. ↩
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Zotero is a free, open-source resource management software. Sometimes people use it to keep track of papers and other resources they want to cite in their writing; in our case, it's serving as a place where articles, papers, books, podcasts, etc... that come up in conversations in signal, video chats, emails, etc... can be saved. ↩