Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) on Nostr: Thinking about the selling point of "AI" supposedly "freeing up time" to do important ...
Thinking about the selling point of "AI" supposedly "freeing up time" to do important things. Beyond devaluing the tasks that we can supposedly offload to software systems, it occurs to me that this is kind of opposite of mindfulness/being in the moment.
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