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  1. Decision-makers are navigating on sight. Meetings do not consider the costs of unwinding decisions.

    “Sixty-four percent said the fear of falling behind drives them to invest in technologies before they understand the value.”

    “AI does not make bad executives worse. It gives them a faster way to prove they are bad.”

    By Sarah Choudhary: forbes.com/councils/forbestech

    #validation #AIRisks #bias #cognitiveBias #technoCriticism #management #executives #strategy #growth #ai

  2. Decision-makers are navigating on sight. Meetings do not consider the costs of unwinding decisions.

    “Sixty-four percent said the fear of falling behind drives them to invest in technologies before they understand the value.”

    “AI does not make bad executives worse. It gives them a faster way to prove they are bad.”

    By Sarah Choudhary: forbes.com/councils/forbestech

    #validation #AIRisks #bias #cognitiveBias #technoCriticism #management #executives #strategy #growth #ai

  3. Decision-makers are navigating on sight. Meetings do not consider the costs of unwinding decisions.

    “Sixty-four percent said the fear of falling behind drives them to invest in technologies before they understand the value.”

    “AI does not make bad executives worse. It gives them a faster way to prove they are bad.”

    By Sarah Choudhary: forbes.com/councils/forbestech

    #validation #AIRisks #bias #cognitiveBias #technoCriticism #management #executives #strategy #growth #ai

  4. Decision-makers are navigating on sight. Meetings do not consider the costs of unwinding decisions.

    “Sixty-four percent said the fear of falling behind drives them to invest in technologies before they understand the value.”

    “AI does not make bad executives worse. It gives them a faster way to prove they are bad.”

    By Sarah Choudhary: forbes.com/councils/forbestech

    #validation #AIRisks #bias #cognitiveBias #technoCriticism #management #executives #strategy #growth #ai

  5. Decision-makers are navigating on sight. Meetings do not consider the costs of unwinding decisions.

    “Sixty-four percent said the fear of falling behind drives them to invest in technologies before they understand the value.”

    “AI does not make bad executives worse. It gives them a faster way to prove they are bad.”

    By Sarah Choudhary: forbes.com/councils/forbestech

    #validation #AIRisks #bias #cognitiveBias #technoCriticism #management #executives #strategy #growth #ai

  6. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

    #humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

  7. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

    #humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

  8. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

    #humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

  9. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

    #humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

  10. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

  11. SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

    This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: sipri.org/commentary/topical-b

    #arms #armsTrade #weapons #militaryAI #military #AIindustry #Magnificent7 #technoCriticism #SIPRI

  12. SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

    This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: sipri.org/commentary/topical-b

    #arms #armsTrade #weapons #militaryAI #military #AIindustry #Magnificent7 #technoCriticism #SIPRI

  13. SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

    This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: sipri.org/commentary/topical-b

    #arms #armsTrade #weapons #militaryAI #military #AIindustry #Magnificent7 #technoCriticism #SIPRI

  14. SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

    This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: sipri.org/commentary/topical-b

    #arms #armsTrade #weapons #militaryAI #military #AIindustry #Magnificent7 #technoCriticism #SIPRI

  15. SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

    This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: sipri.org/commentary/topical-b

  16. @brianmerchant @oausi @alineblankertz

    Thank you for a refreshing article. For non-US proposals, you may look at #technoCriticism.

  17. @brianmerchant @oausi @alineblankertz

    Thank you for a refreshing article. For non-US proposals, you may look at #technoCriticism.

  18. @brianmerchant @oausi @alineblankertz

    Thank you for a refreshing article. For non-US proposals, you may look at #technoCriticism.

  19. @brianmerchant @oausi @alineblankertz

    Thank you for a refreshing article. For non-US proposals, you may look at #technoCriticism.

  20. @brianmerchant @oausi @alineblankertz

    Thank you for a refreshing article. For non-US proposals, you may look at .

  21. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

    #responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

  22. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

    #responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

  23. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

  24. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

    #responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

  25. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

    #responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

  26. ‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
    —Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937

    It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.

    @psychology @philosophy

    #tourism #nature #wilderness #BienVivir #wellLiving #SilentSunday #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #postDevelopment #beliefs #degrowth #philosophy #quote #quotes #citation #citations #EstelleSays #technique #technoCriticism

  27. ‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
    —Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937

    It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.

    @psychology @philosophy

    #tourism #nature #wilderness #BienVivir #wellLiving #SilentSunday #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #postDevelopment #beliefs #degrowth #philosophy #quote #quotes #citation #citations #EstelleSays #technique #technoCriticism

  28. ‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
    —Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937

    It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.

    @psychology @philosophy

    #tourism #nature #wilderness #BienVivir #wellLiving #SilentSunday #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #postDevelopment #beliefs #degrowth #philosophy #quote #quotes #citation #citations #EstelleSays #technique #technoCriticism

  29. ‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
    —Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937

    It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.

    @psychology @philosophy

    #tourism #nature #wilderness #BienVivir #wellLiving #SilentSunday #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #postDevelopment #beliefs #degrowth #philosophy #quote #quotes #citation #citations #EstelleSays #technique #technoCriticism

  30. ‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
    —Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937

    It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.

    @psychology @philosophy