Michael Robbins

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Inference ➡️ Implication

For the future of digital personhood and human-centric AI

Our only chance against AI out of control is with AI that works for us

#ImplicationModels #AIreps #HumanCentricAI #AnthropogenicAI #DOTES

Beyond Digital Badges Take charge of your story with DOTES

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It’s dogwood “flower” season in Washington, D.C. (Those are actually petals). These are what inspired my design for the DOTES spiral. Learn more about what makes Dotes special in my comment below

People are struggling. And in that struggle, many still believe—honestly and earnestly—that protesting, lecturing, discourse, debate, and civil action are the pathways to change.

It’s a seductive belief.
But it’s also, in this moment, heartbreakingly ineffective…

Michael Robbins on LinkedIn: When people feel powerless, their moral concern shrinks. Perceived… When people feel powerless, their moral concern shrinks. Perceived powerlessness pushes us toward zero-sum thinking, where every gain for “them” feels like a…

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With the dissolution of the social safety net, we will see the resurgence of mutual aid societies in a variety of incarnations. I'm particularly interested in ones we can build to harness the power of technology, using those ecosystems to embed democracy into AI and share in its rewards.

How to Make Your Work AI-Resistant 🐪🤖 Have to report on 5 things you did last week at work? Don’t just list tasks—highlight what makes your work uniquely human.

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The 5 things you did at work last week email isn’t about accountability- it’s about automation. Run all the responses through an AI model and you get a description of everything that can be replaced by AI agents working at lightning speed.

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
—Hannah Arendt

To build trust in the digital world—spanning the internet, metaverse, and smart devices—we need digital identities that truly represent us. This starts with personhood: a secure, consistent way to prove who you are, control your data, and ensure everyone has a voice in our shared digital future.

Happy to see you here, but choosing another social platform is like bailing out the Titanic with a teacup.

Peace-oriented governance points society towards peacemaking

Conflict-based governance is oriented towards keeping the peace

We need provisions for humans, our Reps (AI agents that represent individuals), and bots. Authentic, anonymous, and pseudonymous identities. We can solve the deepfake problem and build information ecosystems with trust based on this. #Tridentity #TriDATS #AI #deepfakes #personhood

Imagine a new digital public commons, owned and governed by the participants, that prioritizes collaboration and incentivizes problem solving.

Everyone just wants to share why they think something won't work and that they have a better idea instead of building on each other's discoveries. Academia is hellbent on publishing and getting research grants—monetization or perish. Our digital public commons & funding ecosystem is to blame.

The communication channels for innovation prioritize competition of ideas for scraps of exploitative venture capital and Red Teaming for dopamine instead of collaborative investigation and understanding. The ideas and innovators are right in front of our eyes, but we're too blind to see them.

The ones in between AI Implication Models and Inference Models I think of as Complications (like a watchmaker would design)

Neurosymbolic AI won’t be transformative until we couple it with a different approach to data inputs, training, and supervision. The graphs must work differently than the ones being used for GenAI. This will be how we establish Implication Models as a compliment to Inference Models.

The statue of Abraham Lincoln at the memorial to him in Washington, DC—symbolic of our forthcoming emancipation from a digital realm that does not recognize us as people.

Who wants to discuss digital #personhood?

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’

This platform will come next. It’s inevitable when profits propel our digital public sphere. The modern tragedy of the commons.

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The masters’ tools will never dismantle the masters’ houses.

Bluesky is just another master’s house

We must take those tools and build new homes by/for/of #WeThePeople.