Can we use AI for better ends?

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Most of the talk about AI seems to be about 10x, 100x, 2,500 PRs a month. However, opportunities to stop and think about what all that speed is good for are rare. I want to inspire a debate about whether we are using AI as merely "an improved means to unimproved ends" (Thoreau). Can we, instead, improve our ends? What would it look like to do this systematically?

About the Speaker
Alex Voss has taught software engineering at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and has been a Technology and Human Rights fellow at the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School. He now works as a freelancer and focuses on solutions for technical documentation using Open Source tooling and the Docs-as-Code approach. Alex also maintains an interest in human-centric, rights-driven software design.
https://corealization.com/

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