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#giftArticle been thinking about Phil #Agre lately, who "wrote in 1994 that the mass collection of data would change and simplify human behavior to make it easier to quantify."
I met him the last day he worked at UChicago. I was looking for advice on a PhD. He thought he'd closed his office door the last time then saw this woman he didnt' know knocking on it (I'd graduated 4 years earlier) and went back to talk to her. #PhilAgre #AIEthics
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Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?
In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers would one day facilitate the mass collection of data on everything in society.
That process would change and simplify human behavior, wrote the then UCLA humanities professor. And because that data would be collected not by a single, powerful “big brother” government but by lots of entities for lots of different purposes, he predicted that people would willingly part with massive amounts of information about their most personal fears and desires. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159708
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Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?
In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers would one day facilitate the mass collection of data on everything in society.
That process would change and simplify human behavior, wrote the then UCLA humanities professor. And because that data would be collected not by a single, powerful “big brother” government but by lots of entities for lots of different purposes, he predicted that people would willingly part with massive amounts of information about their most personal fears and desires. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159708