Really liked @garymarcus.bsky.social’s rebuttal, & want to highlight something that hasn’t featured enough: Newton’s essay is a serious erasure of the women and POC scholars and technologists who are at the forefront of tech & #ai ethics.
Really appreciate Marcus calling this out
Really appreciate Marcus calling this out
Reposted from
Gary Marcus
What made @caseynewton.bsky.social’s critique on AI skepticism so “disgraceful” (to quote @edzitron.com)?
Since AI skepticism will a vital counterweight in the years ahead, I deconstruct it in depth here. With shoutouts to many of the AI skeptics he forgot.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Since AI skepticism will a vital counterweight in the years ahead, I deconstruct it in depth here. With shoutouts to many of the AI skeptics he forgot.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Comments
Dr. Joy Buolamwini was the first to seriously challenge Amazon and Microsoft’s claims of facial recognition accuracy on POC
Cathy O’Neal made algorithmic bias a household phrase
Shoshana Zuboff coined “surveillance capitalism”
This isn’t even close to an exhaustive list! But a serious understanding of tech ethics and the arguments it produces isn’t possible without reading leading voices absent in Newton’s piece