{"id":3702,"date":"2020-12-14T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:40","slug":"cybernetics-ai-and-ethical-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2020\/12\/cybernetics-ai-and-ethical-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybernetics, AI, and Ethical Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quote above: An approach to interface design based on Heinz von Foerster’s <\/a><\/em>Ethical Imperative<\/a> where “<\/em>choices” are\u00a0distinguished from “options” \u2014 options are anything that is possible, while choices are only those options that are viable and well-suited to this user in this moment.<\/i><\/p>\n

More and more, today’s AI makes the world we see and the world we live in \u2014 and we need to respond. In a presentation hosted by the AiTech Agora<\/a> at TU Delft<\/a>, Paul Pangaro<\/a>\u00a0responds with a proposal for collaboration that bridges AI and cybernetics with conversation.<\/p>\n

Click for video of presentation<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click for full\u00a0abstract and slides<\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

“Pandemic” comes from “all” and “people”, meaning something negative that effects us all. While not biological, today’s AI foments polarization, pushes irrelevant products, spreads social bias, and surveils our lives. AI touches billions and sways more of us, \u00a0in more invasive and uncontrolled ways, every day.<\/p>\n

AI came out of cybernetics<\/a>, a practice that evolved from a series of trans-disciplinary conversations called the Macy Meetings<\/a>. This history offers a way forward.<\/p>\n

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Pangaro argues for a revival of trans-disciplinary conversations \u2014 for #NewMacyMeetings<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 to respond to the wicked challenges<\/a> of \u00a0today’s AI.\u00a0Beyond being trans-disciplinary, conversations for the\u00a021st-century must<\/span>\u00a0also be\u00a0trans-global and trans-generational. Only then can we prioritize our technology for universal human values.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pangaro’s talk proposes how cybernetic models of conversation may enable the design of interactions\u00a0that are cooperative, ethical, and humane,\u00a0whether human-to-human or human\u2013to-machine.<\/p>\n

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Click for video of presentation<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click for full\u00a0abstract and slides<\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Quote above: An approach to interface design based on Heinz von Foerster’s Ethical Imperative where “choices” are\u00a0distinguished from “options” \u2014 options are anything that is possible, while choices are only those options that are viable and well-suited to this user in this moment. More and more, today’s AI makes the world we see and the … <\/p>\n

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