AI

On May 2, members of the Writers Guild of America, or WGA, dropped their pens and walked out of their writers’ rooms in pursuit of better wages.

It seems as though we are only concerned about how computers speak, but not how they see and listen. This leads me to believe that our worries might be more correlated with our imagination than the potency of the technology itself.

To date, this column has taken a broadly anti-AI and AI art stance. I intuitively know that the primary reason I feel this way is due to a personal aesthetic aversion to AI art.

The Daily Californian sat down to interview Coye Cheshire, a sociological social psychologist and professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information.

What is the point of living my life when I can’t make my own decisions?

As educators and students move forward into this unknown world of technology, there must be a reminder and a gentle push to take time for ourselves and be taught by nature.

The history of artificial intelligence is more than just the historical development of technology. It’s also a history of humanity’s self-image — and our fear in replicating what we believe to be our artificial counterparts. 

In this issue, The Weekender explores the various ways AI has changed the value of creativity and human intelligence.

What gets churned out by AI is inherently antithetical to art, so why do we labor to maintain that it might still have creative utility?

We are deluding ourselves if we believe tech is a blank slate that is free from capitalism, misogyny and racism.