Kate Crawford’s NY Times article, “Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem,” accurately describes the lack of representation currently being faced within the white male-dominated tech industries of today. These machine systems are being built with questionable ethical standards, creating biased answers as these systems replicate and reproduce the ideas and information they were originally fed, under …
September 2026 archive
Sep 30
AI Proposal Paper Topic:
My proposal idea/topic for Assignment 1 will be to research how to ChatGPT (a multimodal generative AI system using large language models) “works”, it’s interface, as well as analyzing potential biases and how clerical human error can be harmful when programming these systems of artificial intelligence (real world/social scientific impact). I will also include how …
Sep 30
Oct 13 HW
One interesting thing I’ve learned from “Sherry Tuckle’s Reclaiming Conversations” is that technology can actually make people avoid real conversations. She explains how people sometimes choose texting or using their phones because face to face conversations can feel uncomfortable or require more effort. I thought this was interesting because even though technology helps us stay …
Sep 29
Week 2 Readings
Crawford, Atlas of AI (Excerpt) – This reading made me think about how people can create technology without thinking about the people who could be affected by it. I was surprised that some AI researchers can work with information about real people without having to go through the same ethics reviews as other types of …
Sep 29
On Our Second Readings: Ruha Benjamin and Kate Crawford
This Crawford piece speaks very much to a thing I have personally been saying to a lot of people in my life and it is that we really need to pump the breaks a little on AI sensationalism because it is a marketing campaign, an AI power accelerator, a thing to argue about in the …
Sep 29
AI Paper Proposal
I use three LLMs for entirely different purposes, aside from sandboxed models for messing around with image generation or video. Claude for code and general server development and maintenance. Gemini for administrative and research things related to schooling. ChatGPT for every other stupid thing I can think of and to test the limitations, reactions, evolution, …
Sep 29
Week 3 Readings
Crawford, Kate, NY Times, “Artifical Intelligence’s White Guy Problem” – This reading taught me that AI can have the same biases that people have. I was surprised that technology that seems smart can still make serious mistakes like misidentifying Black people or giving some people fewer job ads based on their gender. I also learned …
Sep 29
Proposal
For my Critical AI Analysis Paper, I plan to study the Spotify recommendation algorithm. I chose Spotify topic because I use it to listen to music a lot and I really want to understand how it decides what songs and artists to recommend to me. The recommendations can feel personal because Spotify uses information about …
Sep 29
Readings for September 29
• Crawford, Kate, NY Times, “Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem” Artificial Intelligence presents a threat to humanity. It has a history of depicting bad behavior such as racial, sexual, and gender discrimination through various examples. Machine-learning algorithms contain many flaws and errors which can be seen through the forms of discrimination being built into them. …
Sep 29
Assignment 1 Proposal
My proposal for the “Assignment 1: Critical AI Analysis Paper” is to compare the ability of multiple AI to come up with statements based on simple topics. Since AI are essentially databases, this will make it easier to see how certain AI “think.” It’s obvious that AI can make mistakes so being perfect isn’t the …
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