Jordan Loewen-Colón, PhD

AI tools promise efficiency at work, but they can erode trust, creativity and agency Without deliberate strategies, over-reliance on AI could erode self-trust, creativity and ethical judgment and leave organizations more fragile, not more resilient.

#Chatbot use can increase workplace efficiency in the short run but can prompt #automation bias and erode employee trust in their own judgement, problems that leaders can take steps to prevent, explain @j-l-c.bsky.social & Mel Sellick

theconversation.com/ai-tools-pro... #AI #work

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

I signed the open letter to Pause Giant AI Experiments and you should to!

futureoflife.org/open-letter/...

I am today years old when I first learned that 1 Corinthians 13, the "love chapter", and one of the greatest human pieces of spiritual writings on love ever written, was most likely not actually Paul's (but adapted from a pre-Pauline tradition)

I think "Be What that Nazis Hate" is going to be my new email sign off

"Why do people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation?" - Deleuze and Guattari (paraphrasing a far more caustic quote from Spinoza)

Free Willy is definitely a Thanksgiving movie.

"The Other is the expression of a possible world"

- Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

So often a thing is true in perception, but not perspective

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes."

—Marcel Proust

“Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the word, and ultimately new worlds.”

-José Esteban Muñoz

"The brain only knows the body"

- Lisa Feldman Barrett

"The masks do not hide anything except other masks."

—Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

"Knowledge is not made for knowing, it is made for cutting."

-Michel Foucault

We are put on earth a little space
That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

—William Blake

"Yet it is far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness."

- W. L. Watkinson

"We all have moments when the universal life seems to wrap us round with friendliness."

—William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!

Reading through "“This is Taino Land and Taino Knowledge”:
Disrupting Dominant Construction of Caribbean Indigenous Peoples" by Erica Neeganagwedgin and reminded that:

Claiming existence is an act of resistance.

5 minutes in, and they got me crafting an "identity pendant" full of sensation, memory, and sacrifice.

I think I just found a new assignment for my religion and video games course!

"I was loved by people I have no memory of"

I can relate...

I am finally getting around to playing the video game "Season: A Letter to the Future" and my goodness, it hits different.