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Cori Lathan's avatar

Love the arc of this story- I literally teared up. I’m also intrigued w “intellectual craftsman” and want to read the Mills 1959 essay. At face value it’s a better description of me than “inventor.”

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Andrew Maynard's avatar

Thanks Cori! I say more about Mills' piece in the postscript, but his Appendix On Intellectual Craftsmanship can be read here: https://ia600103.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.101543/2015.101543.The-Sociological-Imagination_text.pdf

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Molly Freeman's avatar

I urge you to view "Excavating 'Ground Truth' in AI," featuring Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI. Crawford's deconstruction of AI presents an alternative take to your enthrall with a data processing machine imbued with the biases and mental traps that produced it.

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