AI and social media: we must decentralize, democratize, and humanize
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Solarpunk is an optimistic and visionary movement for a future civilization in harmony with nature and composed of community democracies that are egalitarian and just.
Issues:
Big Tech and governmental threat of using AI/social media to: dehumanize work, art and culture, education, social interaction; enforce a techno-dictatorship.
Technological threat of a future Skynet.
How community participatory democracy can turn AI and social media into tools for communication, building community, creativity, and scientific discovery.
The following videos and article are required for participation so we can have an informed discussion. Feel free to attend and listen.
“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEqNXffoGWo 10 min.
The Rise of the American Technocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa6nMab2eoE 24 min.
Compost modernity! The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms https://aeon.co/essays/in-solarpunk-cities-of-the-future-tech-follows-natures-lead 20 min.
Solarpunk Is Gen Z's Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YiBEXoP_p4 17 min.