Tag: values

AI is not neutral. Neither is education.

Nov 25, 2024

in AI, Education

critical pedagogy, neutrality, value-neutral, values

While critics debate AI and education neutrality, they’re missing the point: nothing humans create is value-neutral, including education.
Weekly digest 30

Jul 21, 2024

in Digest

active reading, AI ethics, ChatGPT, Claude, coaching, medical ai, open-source, values

A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
Chatbots and Human Conversation

Jan 26, 2024

in AI, Note

chatbot, conversation, discourse, norms, society, values

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/01/chatbots-and-human-conversation.html
AI assistants will be everywhere

Jan 15, 2024

in AI

AI assistant, assistant, ethics, language models, open source, value-alignment, values

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-ai-haunted-world “In the near future, AIs will work in their own hierarchies of intelligence, all communicating with each other, perhaps mostly autonomously. If you want to grab a bite to eat, it may be that your more “intelligent” premium AI assistant can guess what restaurant you might like based on reasoning about you and your…
We don’t always know what we want

Jan 5, 2024

in AI, Note

control, desire, humans, people, values

One obvious property of humans, if you think about it, is that they don’t always know what they want. Stuart Russel (2019). Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. This can make it hard to specify in advance what our goals are.
My biased enthusiasm for generative AI, clearly articulated

Dec 16, 2023

in AI

bias, foundation models, language models, large language models, LLMs, mass education, open source, philosophy, values

I understand the serious ethical concerns many have raised about generative AI. These are important issues that deserve thoughtful debate. I believe that I know something about these concerns and I know the critical position I’m meant to take as an academic working at the intersection of education and technology. I’ve spent 15 years in…
Comment: The danger of AI is weirder than you think.

Jan 10, 2020

in AI, Clinical, Note

common sense, competence, consciousness, goals, healthcare, machine learning, values

AI can be really destructive and not know it. So the AIs that recommend new content in Facebook, in YouTube, they’re optimized to increase the number of clicks and views. And unfortunately, one way that they have found of doing this is to recommend the content of conspiracy theories or bigotry. The AIs themselves don’t…
Comment: How Can AI Systems Understand Human Values?

Dec 16, 2019

in AI, Note

ethics, goals, reasoning, utility, values

…for ML systems to truly be successful, they need to understand human values. More to the point, they need to be able to weigh our competing desires and demands, understand what outcomes we value most, and act accordingly. Creighton, J. (2019). How Can AI Systems Understand Human Values? The Future of LIfe Institute blog. This…
AI safety needs social scientists

Nov 20, 2019

in AI

ai safety, alignment, ethics, social science, values

…we need social scientists with experience in human cognition, behavior, and ethics, and in the careful design of rigorous experiments. Since the questions we need to answer are interdisciplinary and somewhat unusual relative to existing research, we believe many fields of social science are applicable, including experimental psychology, cognitive science, economics, political science, and social…
Comment: Could robots make us better humans?

Jun 19, 2019

in AI, Note

art, creativity, empathy, mathematics, science, values

This is one of his arguments for listening to AI-generated music, studying how computers do maths and…gazing at digitally produced paintings: to understand how advanced machines work at the deepest level, in order to make sure we know everything about the technology that is now built into our lives. Harris, J. (2019). Could robots make…
altPhysio | Creating value

Aug 8, 2016

in Altphysio, Curriculum, Physiotherapy

beliefs, learning, learning strategies, values

This is the second post in a series of exploring what a next-generation physiotherapy school might look like. Many of the ideas are not fully formed and some have very little evidence to support them. This is OK. Push back is welcome. Here’s the second interview. Q: Now that you’ve provided the background and context for why…
PHT402: What is the value of a human life?

Aug 15, 2013

in Assignments, Curriculum, Ethics, pht402, Physiotherapy

equality, ethics, human life, human rights, judgements, morals, online course, pht402, professional ethics, torture, values

This is my fourth contribution to a series of weekly posts related to the #pht402 Professional Ethics course. This week’s topic is specifically about torture, but the general principle concerns the rights of the individual vs the rights of society, as well as asking about the relative value of a human life. I’m going to…
Exposing the culture of professional practice

Nov 27, 2012

in Curriculum, Physiotherapy

becoming, belief systems, community, culture, language, norms, profession, social networks, values

I often forget that learning is not only mediated by social relationships, but by cultural relationships as well. To a large degree we are the products of influence that emerge from interactions between thousands of variables within our families, groups of friends, communities, religions and countries. The process of becoming a physiotherapist is also embedded within…
Results of my Delphi first round

Nov 21, 2011

in PhD, Physiotherapy, Research

anxiety, attitudes, attributes, awareness, confidence, delphi method, delphi study, emotion, fear, hidden culture, knowledge, personal, phd, professional, research, skills, values

I’ve recently finished the analysis of the first round of the Delphi study that I’m conducting as part of my PhD. The aim of the study is to determine the personal and professional attributes that determine patient outcomes, as well as the challenges faced in clinical education. These results will serve to inform the development…