{ "docId": "019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0", "docSlug": "b5722f8c12c21bf3", "documentTitle": "The importance of being human in a digital world", "authorId": "Deloitte", "authorName": "Cambridge University Press", "documentKindSlug": "consulting-deck", "documentKindLabel": "Consulting deck", "sourceTypeSlug": "strategy_consulting", "sourceTypeLabel": "Strategy consulting", "presentationDate": null, "orientation": "portrait", "aspectRatio": 0.667, "pageNumber": 60, "pageCount": 224, "prevPage": 59, "nextPage": 61, "slideType": "appendix", "function": "summarize", "density": "dense", "nDataPoints": 0, "notes": "This is a page from an academic book (Frank Pasquale). It contains footnotes and a footer with copyright/access information.", "elementsJson": [ "paragraph", "footnote" ], "metadataConfidence": 0.9, "imagePath": null, "slideHref": "/slides/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0/60", "deckHref": "/decks/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0", "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0.json", "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0#slide-60", "components": [ { "bbox": { "h": 0.05, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.1 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "based on the data of millions. This again affords computation, and those in control of its most advanced methods and widespread deployments, an outsized role in shaping future events, preferences, and values.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "576a6306-f098-47e3-8f0f-88736681de86", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.08, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.73 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Before diving into the argument, one prefatory note is in order. The sections that follow touch upon a wide range of cultural artefacts. There are spoilers, so if you intend to read, view, or listen to one of the works discussed, without being forewarned of some critical plot twist or character development, it may be wise to stop reading when it is mentioned. Unlike computers, we cannot simply delete", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "62f74a89-8128-4f5d-9cc0-71f3fbd14b19", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.2, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.52 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "I begin the argument in Section 4.1 by articulating how Rachel Cusk's (2017) novel Transit and Maria Schrader's film I'm Your Man suggest a range of ways to regard emerging AIs which simulate human expression. Each sympathetically describe a man and woman (respectively) comforted and intrigued by AI communications. Yet each work leaves no doubt that the AI and robotics it treats have done much to create the conditions of alienation and loneliness they promise to cure. Section 4.2 examines the long-term implications of such alienation, exploring works that attempt to function as a \"self-preventing prophecy\": Hari Kunzru's (2020) Red Pill and Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan's Westworld. Section 4.3 concludes with reflections on the politico-economic context of professed emotional attachments to AI and robotics.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "b22dfe68-d026-414c-89a3-365bbbdd925a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.35, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.16 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Despite such clear and present dangers, many fiction and non-fiction works gloss over the problem of artificial intelligence overpowering natural thought, feeling, and insight. They instead present robots (and even operating systems and large language models) as sympathetic and vulnerable, deserving rights and respect now accorded to humans. Questioning such media representations of AI is a first step toward achieving the cultural commitments and sensibilities that will be necessary to conserve human capacities amidst the growing influence of what Lyotard (1992) deemed \"the inhuman\": systems that presume and promote the separability of the body from memory, will, and emotion. What must be avoided is a drift toward an evolutionary environment where individual decisions to overvalue, over-empower, and overuse AI advance machinic and algorithmic modes of thought to the point that distinctively human and non-algorithmic values are marginalized. Literature and film can help us avoid this drift by structuring imaginative experiences which vividly crystallize and arrestingly illuminate the natural tendencies of individual decisions.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "cbccdb1d-18c7-4538-9207-40a17021fb31", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.06, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.87 }, "kind": "source-note", "text": "4 As James Boyd White (1989, 2016) has argued, \"A literary text is not a string of propositions, but a structured experience of the imagination, and it should be talked about in a way that reflects its character.\" A \"structured experience of the imagination\" does not offer us propositional truths about the world. However, it gives us a sense of what it means to \"live forwards\" (in Kierkegaard's formulation) even as we understand backwards.", "attrs": { "numbered": true }, "subkind": null, "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "c8f688ac-e2eb-40de-a33b-5dff042713f6", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.05, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.82 }, "kind": "source-note", "text": "3 For a review article compiling many non-fiction works that either reflect or document such sentiments, see Jamie Harris and Jacy Reese Anthis (2021). Novelists may also seek to cultivate such sentiments; see, e.g., Kazuo Ishiguro's (2021) Klara and the Sun.", "attrs": { "numbered": true }, "subkind": null, "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "d564a859-49d1-4c23-8e04-11ece435f12c", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null } ], "metrics": [], "tools": [], "frameworks": [], "arcBeats": [ { "to": 70, "from": 51, "beatId": "35b8d5cd-6b25-42c2-88e8-d5008b76c1b2", "arcName": "The Transformation Tale", "arcSlug": "transformation-tale", "beatName": "Future Vision (Gain)", "beatSlug": "transformation-tale-future-vision-gain", "evidence": "The document discusses the importance of preserving human culture and flourishing in a digital world.", "position": 2, "confidence": 0.8, "parentBeatName": "Turn", "parentBeatSlug": "turn" } ], "loops": [], "imagePathAlt": null, "thumbSrc": null, "thumbSrcAlt": null, "locked": true }