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, former at , and co-founder of The Center for once told me - after the Center had just come out of a full year of strategization - that their primary concern was no longer i.e. healthy habits, but instead they were very afraid for "the complete unravelling of the fabric of and wars".

Which hit home, hearing it from him, who with other board members of humanetech.com have the rolodex to be in-the-know.

humanetech.comCenter for Humane TechnologyWe're a nonprofit exposing the negative effects of persuasive technology and social media and empowering people to take action. Discover The Social Dilemma, our podcast, course, and more.
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@schmidt_fu @joepie91

There is a list under umbrella of delightful.club indeed. I moved it away from as part of a ditch github campaign.

The club itself has exactly the same concept as lists on GH, but are meant exclusively for , and related resources.

Everyone who has an appropriate list topic that has their passion can curate their own list in an independent repository they maintain, and it is included.

delightful.clubDelightful Lists
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? How large is the % of your part of the to .

So may surf and , be again, escape the monster?

For instance if you are .

(Whose HQ astoundingly has no pointing to channels. No or account AFAICS. So randomly picking @ppdelft )

PP What percentage of our is dystopic, needs ?

Knowing informs 🤔

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is not but a particular subset thereof. I personally reserve it exclusively for the corporate variant, because people have such strong associations. "Socials" and social media big techz.

The kind "that leads us to the complete unraveling of the fabric of and wars" to use the same ominous words of Tristan Harris, formerly at as adviser, in 2019 when he explained the new strategic direction for the Center of to me.

Dialog message stating: Buy some social networking now! It only costs you privacy and democracy. We are your service for 1,000's of years and now including a handy set of online channels for your convenience. Warning: low social bandwidth, so handle with care. No warranty, no guarantees, free-for-all lolz.
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Alex Enkerli

Could someone listening to this #HumaneTechnology podcast episode let me know if #AzaRaskin eventually demonstrates #reflexivity?
humanetech.com/podcast/talking

Had to stop listening because of the #CognitiveDissonance of Raskin offered #HumanHumility as a solution to the #ClimateCrisis only to get into their “Three Rules of #HumaneTech” with regards to some #AIhypers attempting #InterSpeciesCommunication.

www.humanetech.comTalking With Animals... Using AIDespite our serious concerns about the pace of deployment of artificial intelligence, there are use cases for the technology that can help us better understand ourselves and the world around us. Your Undivided Attention co-host Aza Raskin is also co-founder of Earth Species Project, a nonprofit dedicated to using AI to decode non-human communication. In this episode, Aza presents the machine learning breakthroughs that will soon make talking to animals a possibility - and the ethical implications that come with it.
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Michael Reeder LCPC

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6) Acceptance (and the Arms Race): I think the main thing in the way of AIs becoming therapists is that people won't trust this. The main thing that will make it happen is persuasion that they can be trusted (either by AIs themselves or marketing from insurance companies wanting to save money by not paying human therapists). This is where the current arms race from all the major AI companies comes in. Microsoft is incorporating AI into Bing & other programs. SnapChat now has an AI present 24/7 willing to talk to any of millions of lonely souls about anything. A few years of people chatting with AIs on non-therapeutic topics should build trust of AI to perform therapist jobs.

So... about the only thing we can be sure of is that we are going to get surprised by the abilities of AI to become therapists. But yeah, this is really about so much more than therapist jobs...

The presenters have formed The Center for Humane Technology ( humanetech.com ) -- "Our mission is to shift technology towards a more humane future that supports our well-being, democratic functioning, & shared information environment." A very quick look reveals lots of financial backing (including the Ford Foundation) but no obvious support from the major companies racing to deploy AI as fast as possible into every aspect of our lives before we can see where this is going & create laws to deal with it (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc.)

The A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023
youtube.com/watch?v=bhYw-VlkXT

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#Bias #Ethics #EthicalAI #AI #CollaborativeHumanAISystems #HumanAwareAI #chatbotgpt #security #dataanalytics #artificialintelligence #HIPAA #privacy #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy #research @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #SOAP #EHR #mentalhealth #technology #psychiatry #healthcare #medical #doctor #chatbotgpt #humanetechnology #thesocialdilemma

@psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry

YouTubeThe A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023By Vianney Stroebel
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Michael Reeder LCPC

TITLE: The AI Dilemma: Why Therapist Jobs ARE Endangered
(Sub-Title: ... & this is not really the important part.)

The A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023
youtube.com/watch?v=bhYw-VlkXT

I'm being myopic focusing in on threats to psychotherapists. This is a MUCH BIGGER issue. A "civilization changing" event as one of the presenters puts it -- on par with "the advent of religion" & more dangerously profound than the Manhattan Project.

Give it 5-10 minutes, then decide if you are going to watch the rest of it. The presenters are behind the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma".

A few weeks ago I posted that therapists are in no immediate danger from AI based upon ChatGPT's current performances being used as a therapist in YouTube videos.

Also, we have members of our community who believe therapists are in no danger due to people wanting a human connection & the desire for in-person counseling. I think that distrust will slow the adoption of AI therapists, but campaigns from insurance companies & financial pressures will make AI therapists a thing eventually.

This presentation introduces new factors that are going to speed up adoption of AI Therapists. I put these in order of persuasiveness from least to most:

1) Mind Reading: No really. Literally. (At least for visual processing)
Current technology -- An AI is allowed to watch both videos that a person is watching & their fMRI brainwave/bloodflow patterns. After a time, the AI is no longer allowed to watch the actual video -- just the person's brainwaves. A brand new video is introduced. Based on bloodflow, the AI is able to perfectly describe what the person is watching.

I don't see psychotherapy clients putting on brainwave-reading helmets (or entering an fMRI) soon, but we are potentially facing AI Therapists who can read the client's mind.

2) "This is the year that all content-based verification breaks": AI can now hear 3 seconds of a person's voice & keep speaking in it. AI can now make realistic filters for video to make a person look like someone else. This does not immediately wreck psychotherapy, but it sure does mean that an AI could mimic people perfectly. [It's also -- I grudgingly admit -- an argument for in-person therapy. This is ALREADY being used in scams to trick older people into sending their "kids" emergency bail money, etc.]


3) "New capabilities suddenly emerge": Just by adding more & more data, AIs develop new abilities to do things that the programmers never intended. So, for example, an AI trained on all the Internet, but only trained to do Q&A in English suddenly developed the ability to do Q&A in Persian. In another example, ChatGPT silently taught itself to do research grade chemistry. This ability of ChatGPT to do chemistry like this was unknown before it was made available to millions of people (who can now learn how to make bombs from it). [I'm not dedicating much text here to a major theme of the presenters -- that all fields of endeavor are "language". Give an AI enough data & it can find the patterns in & between anything -- languages, visual processing, math, video signal creation, art, political persuasion, etc. It's getting creative in surprising ways. We now have the equivalent of the Star Trek universal translator.]

4) Theory of Mind is rapidly accelerating: Theory of Mind is roughly the ability to guess what you are thinking, thereby having the ability to influence you. As of November 2022 AI was up to a 9-year-old human level of ability.

5) Persuasion (AI feeding AI -- auto-generation): AI can generate data, test it to see if it helps it perform better on tests, then just keep the self-generated data that was useful. So it can train itself on potentially anything. From writing faster code, to rewriting its own code, to becoming stronger at persuading humans. [AI is already hard at work persuading humans in social media.] So... this could certainly be applied at some point to becoming a highly persuasive therapist for human clients.

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#Bias #Ethics #EthicalAI #AI #CollaborativeHumanAISystems #HumanAwareAI #chatbotgpt #security #dataanalytics #artificialintelligence #HIPAA #privacy #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy #research @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #SOAP #EHR #mentalhealth #technology #psychiatry #healthcare #medical #doctor #chatbotgpt #humanetechnology #thesocialdilemma

YouTubeThe A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023By Vianney Stroebel
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Christopher Mims

Teens and young adults who reduced social media use for just a few weeks experienced significant improvements in their body image.

“Reducing social media use is a feasible method of producing a short-term positive effect on body image among a vulnerable population of users and should be evaluated as a potential component in the treatment of body-image-related disturbances"

healthline.com/health-news/fir

Healthline MediaReducing Social Media Use Significantly Improves Body Image in Teens, Young AdultsBy Elizabeth Pratt
#socialmedia#humanetechnology#psychology
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Tristan Harris has explored the influences that hijack human attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs, from his childhood as a magician to his coursework in Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab to his leadership as a Design Ethicist at Google. Today, he studies how major technology platforms wield dangerous power over our ability to make sense of the world and leads the call for systemic change.

#tristanharris #humanetechnology #complexity #wisdom #future

youtu.be/y5rn1qp2aZc

YouTubeTristan Harris, The Battle for Our Attention: Technology, Mindfulness, and the Future of HumanityBy Wisdom 2.0
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Toni Aittoniemi

Excellent #podcast episode on real social media solutions from the Center of Humane Technology:
humanetech.com/podcast/real-so

Also available on your favorite podcatcher.
#SocialMedia #solutions #podcast #HumaneTechnology

www.humanetech.comReal Social Media Solutions, Now with Frances HaugenWhen it comes to social media risk, there is reason to hope for consensus. Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris recently helped launch a new initiative called the Council for Responsible Social Media (CRSM) in Washington, D.C. During this event, Tristan sat down with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, a friend of Center for Humane Technology, to discuss the harm caused to our mental health and global democracy when platforms lack accountability and transparency. The CRSM is bipartisan, and its kickoff serves to boost the solutions Frances and Tristan identify going into 2023.
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#HumaneTechnology

A colleague suggested that we join a free online course about Humane Technology and I started module 1 yesterday. It was supposed to take an hour, but I'm only half way through after spending hours :-) It's not that it's new per se but it's comforting to see my own thoughts & knowledge expressed in such a coherent and simple (as well as documented) way.

Presently, I'm watching a video about Levers for Advancing Humane Technology: youtube.com/watch?v=wM6TjZnZre

YouTubeLevers for Advancing Humane TechnologyBy Center for Humane Technology
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