Gwendolynne Reid
@gwendolynne-reid.bsky.social
Writing/rhetoric. Associate prof at Emory’s Oxford College.
I get frustrated by evaluations of technologies that focus on their affordances without also evaluating them as sociotechnical systems. Is this a just system? Does it reflect our values? Do we agree with how it remakes our social, political, economic, and material relationships? The environment?
July 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I get frustrated by evaluations of technologies that focus on their affordances without also evaluating them as sociotechnical systems. Is this a just system? Does it reflect our values? Do we agree with how it remakes our social, political, economic, and material relationships? The environment?
I don’t even know what to say. So many professional values and codes of conduct seem to have gone out the window. Who wants to read journalism that is only generated to sound plausible?
May 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I don’t even know what to say. So many professional values and codes of conduct seem to have gone out the window. Who wants to read journalism that is only generated to sound plausible?
@angecass.bsky.social Your 2021 revision inspired us! We'd love to have a chapter from you in the Handbook!
May 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
@angecass.bsky.social Your 2021 revision inspired us! We'd love to have a chapter from you in the Handbook!
I'm so sorry, Zach.
April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm so sorry, Zach.
"Techno-optimism is more accurately described as 'human pessimism' when it assumes that the quality of our character is easily reducible to code.
We can acknowledge AI as a technical achievement without mistaking its narrow abilities for the richer qualities we treasure in each other."
We can acknowledge AI as a technical achievement without mistaking its narrow abilities for the richer qualities we treasure in each other."
AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett
Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways
theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"Techno-optimism is more accurately described as 'human pessimism' when it assumes that the quality of our character is easily reducible to code.
We can acknowledge AI as a technical achievement without mistaking its narrow abilities for the richer qualities we treasure in each other."
We can acknowledge AI as a technical achievement without mistaking its narrow abilities for the richer qualities we treasure in each other."