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AI & Society Monthly "Book" Club

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Downstream Discussion Club

A discussion group for thinking about what AI means to society and what it’s doing to the world it's been released into - to the way we work, learn, connect, and the texture of everyday life.

Each session explores a different role AI is playing in our lives, and asks: is that the role we'd choose for it?

Relevant readings will be provided ahead of each reading, but are optional and joiners are welcome to just discuss guided questions during the sessions!

SESSION 1 (June): What language do we use to understand and describe AI?

Before we can ask what role AI should play in our lives, we need to examine what we think it actually is - and how the metaphors we reach for shape that answer. Is it a compressed copy of human knowledge? A tool corporations use to avoid accountability? Something stranger? This session we'll interrogate the language we already use, and what it reveals (and hides).

Relevant Readings:

• "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" — Ted Chiang, The New Yorker (free via Wayback Machine)

• "Will AI Become the New McKinsey?" — Ted Chiang, The New Yorker (free via Wayback Machine)

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