{ "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": 65, "pageCount": 224, "prevPage": 64, "nextPage": 66, "slideType": "other", "function": "other", "density": "dense", "nDataPoints": 0, "notes": "This appears to be a page from an academic book or journal article.", "elementsJson": [ "paragraph", "footnote" ], "metadataConfidence": 0.9, "imagePath": null, "slideHref": "/slides/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0/65", "deckHref": "/decks/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0", "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0.json", "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0#slide-65", "components": [ { "bbox": null, "kind": "callout", "text": "Skill degradation in the realm of feeling, or articulating one's feelings, is a troubling fate, foreshadowing a mechanization of selfhood, outsourced to the algorithms that tell a person what or how to feel.", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Visual emphasis", "toolSlug": "visual-emphasis", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd952-1044-75f9-bd00-0869f603af1f", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.11, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.79 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The entertaining and intellectually stimulating German film I'm Your Man (2021), directed by Maria Schrader, explores themes of authentic and programmed feeling as its protagonist (an archaeologist named Emma) questions the blandishments of the handsome robotic companion (Tom) whom she agrees to \"test out\" for a firm. Tom can \"converse\" with her about her work, anticipate her needs and", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "1c79c684-d5d5-4884-824f-0c9a8cab542e", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.35, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.09 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "part of a suite of ideologies legitimating radical and controversial societal reordering. As Timnit Gebru and Emile Torres (2024) have explained, there is a close connection between Silicon Valley's accelerationist visions and a bundle of ideologies (Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism) which they abbreviate as TESCREAL. Once ideologies like transhumanism and singularitarianism have breached the boundary between persons' and computers' well-being (again assuming that the idea of computer well-being makes any more sense than, say, toaster well-being), long-term policy may well include and prioritize the development of particularly powerful and prevalent computation (such as \"artificial general intelligence\" or \"superintelligence\") over human well-being, just as some humans are inevitably helped more than others by any given policy. An abstract utilitarian meta-ethical stance, already far more open to wildly variant futures than more grounded virtue-oriented, natural law, and deontological approaches, becomes completely open-ended once the welfare of humans fails to be the fixed point of its individualistic, maximizing, consequentialism.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "29f12eef-5ec7-4caa-9280-b46ce475e6a1", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.32, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.47 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "A GPS system's simulation of kindness is far less a mechanization of compassion (if such a conversion of human emotion into mechanical action can even be imagined), than a corporate calculation to instil brand loyalty. Perhaps humans can learn something from emotion AI designed to soothe, support, and entertain. But the more such emotional states or manners are faked or forced, the more they become an operational mode of navigating the world, rather than an expression of one's own feelings. Skill degradation is one predictable consequence of many forms of automation; pilots, for example, may forget how to fly a plane manually if they over rely on autopilot. Skill degradation in the realm of feeling, or articulating one's feelings, is a troubling fate, foreshadowing a mechanization of selfhood, outsourced to the algorithms that tell a person what or how to feel (Pasquale 2015). Allison Pugh expertly anticipates the danger of efforts to automate both emotional and connective labour, given the sense of meaning and dignity that such work confers on both givers and receivers of care and concern (Pugh 2024).", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "55e14c65-69d3-422a-a24f-7061e1e6f492", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.03, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.44 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Ethical behaviourism also reflects a rather naïve political economy of AI and robotics.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "936d7cae-4a57-4608-93b0-87df81eb161e", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.05, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.91 }, "kind": "source-note", "text": "8 Critical data for today's affective computing arose in part from efforts to classify human emotions in order to teach social skills to autistic children. This therapeutic origin of the data is a double-edged sword, suggesting both a noble original mission and a danger of improper medicalization once it has been adopted beyond the therapeutic setting.", "attrs": { "numbered": true }, "subkind": null, "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "9c6ecdf6-afe9-4bad-b543-286aa9577852", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.02, "w": 0.28, "x": 0.36, "y": 0.05 }, "kind": "title", "text": "Conserving Human Culture in AI", "attrs": null, "subkind": "headline", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "1eba7679-338a-4b3a-ba2d-94a69fd78193", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null } ], "metrics": [], "tools": [ { "name": "Audience Definition", "slug": "audience-definition", "agent": "Storyteller", "layer": "slide", "matchId": "4a9c9693-8c8e-45db-93fc-85ee71c21e1c", "evidence": "part of a suite of ideologies legitimating radical and controversial societal reordering", "confidence": 0.7 } ], "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 }