Fletcher's Flights, a novelette at the edges of the Churchlands and the Five Deserts, inspired by the Alberta prairies and coulees where I grew up.
"Wanted to make my first good memory with someone like you."
Easy top three:
Sunshine — WHAT DO YOU SEE?
Alien³
Gravity
The Martian is nipping at their heels, though. Perfect comfort food.
In class for work learning the 'separation' fairness problem in AI governance: systems need to produce the same true and false positive rates across demographics.
Flashing back hard to the years when fighting algorithmic proctoring bias was a constant battle and that standard was not on the table.
Everyone I know has opinions on AI. Among the things I wish more knew:
'AI literacy' is the big push, but the bundles of topics labelled that vary a LOT. What's included is in no way a settled question. You can get in on those conversations, talk informed choices, consent, harm reduction, VALUES.
Character limits limit, but bottom line, what gets included in 'AI literacy' at any given scale is an underrecognized and crucial arena for championing, refining, and stress-testing values-based conversations. That opportunity may not last, but it's real right now in the spaces I'm looking at.
Disclaimer/baseline context since I get into a lot of conversations related to the lightning rod of genAI and that won't be changing anytime soon: I'm strongly critical of AI in creative work (writing, illustration, covers) and I never use it in my creative writing. That won't be changing at all.
"...the largest empirical study of algorithmic hiring with data for 3.4 million real job applicants...assessed by algorithms from a single vendor: we test whether this algorithmic monoculture bottlenecks job opportunities. We are the first to demonstrate large-scale evidence of racial disparities.."