Sixteen Plates, One Orchestrator
As I write this I have sixteen Claude threads open. They look scattered, but every one ladders up to something I’m trying to accomplish — and I’m the…
Tag: automation
Unwrapping the Claude Release – What I Got, and What’s Still on My List
Anthropic shipped most of what was on my wish list. Here’s what the merge fixed, what’s still rough, and the one thing that’s an order of magnitude bigger…
How AI and Big Tech are reshaping modern warfare
AI, Automation and War explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping military decision-making through new alliances between armed forces and technology companies. King’s sociological approac…
The Problem With iPad-only Controls in Hotel Rooms — And How to Get It Right In Hospitality
The Problem With iPad-only Controls in Hotel Rooms — And How to Get It Right In Hospitality aloft hotel interfaces Picture yourself checking into a hotel during a work trip.…
Turing Tests and ChatGPT’s Sleight of Hand
One of the many benchmarks for AI is the “Turing test,” Alan Turing’s adaptation of the “imitation game” where an interrogator must decide which of two respondents…
Algorithmic Imaginations in Agriculture: Automation?
In 2022, I was conducting my doctoral dissertation research on data-driven, automated digital farming technologies (drones, autosteering, sensors, GIS, smartphones, Big Data) in Turkey. Amidst the glo…
What Is Your Worth? Re-evaluating Human Work in An Automated Future
A while ago I read something on Twitter that got me thinking. The tweet read something along the lines of: “What kind of sci-fi dystopia are we living…
Human as the Ultimate Authority in Control
Illustration of algorithmically simulated flocking behavior (2021, created by Anna Lukina) With the growing size of historical data available to researchers and industrial practitioners, developing al…
An Anthropologist in Silicon Valley
Reflections on a career tackling some of the critical workplace challenges of our time. I could not have imagined when I entered the PhD program in anthropology at…
The Automation and Privatization of Community Knowledge
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about community, who we are as a community, what keeps us connected and together, and how community knowledge is stored and distributed.…
The Automation and Privatization of Community Knowledge
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about community, who we are as a community, what keeps us connected and together, and how community knowledge is stored and distributed.…
Amazon Go and the Erosion of Supermarket Sociability
Invited post by: Sally A. Applin (@AnthroPunk on Twitter)[1] I recently finished my Ph.D. As a present, a friend of mine gave me a hand. Not help, which…
Amazon Go and the Erosion of Supermarket Sociability
Invited post by: Sally A. Applin (@AnthroPunk on Twitter)[1] I recently finished my Ph.D. As a present, a friend of mine gave me a hand. Not help, which…
Web Roundup: Ethical Technology, Moral Medicine by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
Researchers at MIT have launched Moral Machine, a web project to help gauge human perspectives on “moral decisions made by machine intelligence.” The project comes in the wake…