“Machine-learning systems’ emergent pattern recognition capabilities reveal what we choose to replicate and automate—and thus what we value as a society. These systems also serve as a platform to re-imagine the default frameworks that shape our world.”
In the first in a series about AI in design, Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti, assistant professor in practice of architecture at the GSD, considers how AI belongs to a history of technological innovation in design, and how designers may be uniquely equipped to contend with its social, economic, and creative implications.
This thoughtful piece from Harvard Magazine captures much of what troubles me but also inspires me about AI. My own sentiments on this relate to how we have allowed technology to shape our digital lives, and while AI compounds the issue, we address something deeper in order to retain our autonomy over it. (You can explore some of these ideas by watching my talk from the Hatch conference from my /speaking page).