Mike Monteiro
American designer and writer; co-founder of Mule Design and author of Design Is a Job (2012) and Ruined by Design (2019), on designers' ethical responsibility. Writes a weekly advice newsletter and now also paints.
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Their wordsCatholic school rewarded rote memorization more than critical thinking.
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The use of LLMs may eventually lead to people losing the ability to know each other's true voices.
Their wordsEventually your LLM will write your child a note and their LLM will write a reply and neither of you will actually know each other's voices.
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Museums are built for the purposes of preservation or to prevent the repetition of past mistakes.
Their wordsThere are generally two reasons why we build museums: to preserve things, or to not do them again.
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Their wordsAs the horror of war unfolds, the bombing of small towns tends to get sanded away from our collective memory, replaced with vague terms, because the collective noun for the bombing of small towns is war.
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Their wordsWe make art as a warning. We make art as an anchor. We make sure that what is happening here will be remembered by those that come after us.
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The ability to choose where one lives is a privilege that should be extended to everyone.
Their wordsI'd like everyone to be able to choose where they live, and be safe where they choose to live.
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Their wordsI genuinely think we'd be kinder to each other if we ate one another's food, as Anthony Bourdain used to say.
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Their wordsThe thing about being useful is that it's a two way street. You figure out something that you can do to help your friends, your family, your community, and that's great. But being useful is also an amazing mental health trick. It makes you feel necessary. It gives you purpose.
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Their wordsAnd over the years (along with much therapy) I've found that the best way to deal with this feeling, which can be incredibly lonely, is not to ask myself what I need, but to ask myself what others need. How can I be useful?
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Their wordsThe pandemic did things to us, and the fact that we, as a society, mostly decided to pretend it never happened, means that at some level it is still doing things to us.
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Their wordsIt troubles me that kids aren't allowed/encouraged/etc to be bored anymore. I'm a fan of understimulating children. Let them figure their way out of it.
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Their wordsAnd the greatest sin of all might be a tech industry that's exploiting your loneliness by offering you friends that don't exist.
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The language used regarding AI adoption is similar to the language of coercion used in rape culture.
Their wordsI am, however, comparing the language we use when discussing AI adoption to the language of rape culture. It's the language of coercion. Language that implies a lack of choice and reminds you of the power those who are using it have over you. A lack of agency.
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The shift toward AI is being driven by management rather than being a worker-driven shift.
Their wordsAnd while there are certainly workers who've embraced AI tools-I'll let them provide their own reasoning elsewhere-what I'm seeing is the opposite of a worker-driven shift. Management is driving the shift to AI.
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