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Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose
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Centering humanity amid an increasingly automatized and AI-driven economy.
1- Be surprising, social, and scarce- these are qualities machines don’t do well that humans excel in
2- Resist machine drift- shallow, robotic predictability enabled by algorithmic presence everywhere. Recommendation engines evolved into manipulative control devices ver individual preferences. Solution is to re-add in friction that social media attempts to remove.
3- Demote your devices- don’t let your text messages and social media interrupt real life experiences
4- Leave handprints- Mitsuru Kawai anecdote- making yourself indispensable by being versatile and multitalented
5- Don’t be an endpoint- people whose jobs mainly consist of taking directions from a machine or serving as a bridge between two or more incompatible machines— easily replaceable by AI
6- Treat AI like a chimp army- recognize the potential to be erratic and destructive, and therefore don’t put it in charge! Also recognize the potential for following instructions and being effective, therefore train it to work accordingly
7- build big nets and small webs- Big nets are large-scale policies (think government welfare) Small nets are informal, local networks (think neighborhoods, communities, families) —Blackberry anecdote from Waterloo, CN)
8- Learn machine-age humanities- Attention guarding, Room reading, Resting, Digital Discernment, Analog Ethics, Consequentialism
9- Arm the rebels-support the people fighting for ethics and transparency inside our most powerful tech institutions by giving them ammunition in the form of tools, data, and emotional support
1- Be surprising, social, and scarce- these are qualities machines don’t do well that humans excel in
2- Resist machine drift- shallow, robotic predictability enabled by algorithmic presence everywhere. Recommendation engines evolved into manipulative control devices ver individual preferences. Solution is to re-add in friction that social media attempts to remove.
3- Demote your devices- don’t let your text messages and social media interrupt real life experiences
4- Leave handprints- Mitsuru Kawai anecdote- making yourself indispensable by being versatile and multitalented
5- Don’t be an endpoint- people whose jobs mainly consist of taking directions from a machine or serving as a bridge between two or more incompatible machines— easily replaceable by AI
6- Treat AI like a chimp army- recognize the potential to be erratic and destructive, and therefore don’t put it in charge! Also recognize the potential for following instructions and being effective, therefore train it to work accordingly
7- build big nets and small webs- Big nets are large-scale policies (think government welfare) Small nets are informal, local networks (think neighborhoods, communities, families) —Blackberry anecdote from Waterloo, CN)
8- Learn machine-age humanities- Attention guarding, Room reading, Resting, Digital Discernment, Analog Ethics, Consequentialism
9- Arm the rebels-support the people fighting for ethics and transparency inside our most powerful tech institutions by giving them ammunition in the form of tools, data, and emotional support