"The real AI problem is the miscalibration of collective communication at large, and it is a political problem that debates about AI rarely even touch on."
Lauren Klein
This little sentence in last month’s encyclical helped (=goaded) @leifw.bsky.social, @beenwrekt.bsky.social, and me to tie off some threads that spun out of the Cultural AI conference in March
“Reify This”: www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...
The authors contend that contemporary efforts to render AI systems interpretable rest on a mistake: reification, the process of treating abstractions and statistical artifacts as if they were concrete...
