Carissa Véliz
Associate Professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, and author of Privacy Is Power and Prophecy, who writes about privacy, AI and ethics.
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Their wordsA person doesn’t consent to being filmed by being a speaker, so you are in fact filming someone without their consent (unless you’ve asked them beforehand, naturally).
↗Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakerscarissaveliz.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsit’s a fallacy to think that anything that happens in the public domain is fair game to film
↗Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakerscarissaveliz.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
Surveillance has been normalized to the point that important conversations are not being had.
Their wordsI worry that we are not having many important conversations that need to be had because we have normalized surveillance to such an extent that it’s almost become the default.
↗Why You Shouldn’t Record Public Speakerscarissaveliz.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
Their wordsTwo ideals come up time and again that caught my attention: the value of freedom, and of privacy, the latter being a good counterexample to historically uninformed perspectives that view privacy as a contemporary construct.
↗Stop Messing With My Language, AI.carissaveliz.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
Automatic AI translation is an imposition that predicts what people want instead of asking them.
Their wordsAI making automatic translations is a good example of much of how we’re doing it wrong: it assumes (or predicts) that people can’t speak more than one language, and it’s an imposition; it tries to predict what I want instead of asking me.
↗Stop Messing With My Language, AI.carissaveliz.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsTo be the captains of the ship of our culture, we must remain in command of language, because that’s where much of culture resides.
↗Stop Messing With My Language, AI.carissaveliz.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsBut for all the virtues of podcasts, they are nothing like books, and when you listen to a podcast about a book, the better the book, the less you get from the podcast.
↗The Better the Book, the Less You Can Get from the Podcastcarissaveliz.substack.com
- 12 days earlier
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Our reading
Predictions are never facts; more often than not they are delusional musings or power plays.
Their wordsAnd predictions, by definition, are never facts. Facts belong to the present and the past. At best, predictions are educated guesses, but more often than not they are delusional musings or power plays in disguise.
↗The Future Doesn’t Get Predicted — It Gets Producedcarissaveliz.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsthe question is not how dangerous AI is but how dangerous the people and companies producing and using AI are. Algorithms are not moral agents, only human beings are moral agents.
↗The Future Doesn’t Get Predicted — It Gets Producedcarissaveliz.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsOne, culture is more powerful than law and tech together. If our culture rejects spy glasses there’s no way they can thrive.
↗The Future Doesn’t Get Predicted — It Gets Producedcarissaveliz.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece