I just took a class “Artificial Intelligence & Social Work Use in practice,
Ethics and the future”. One of the pieces of info I didn’t know: the centers are often in low-income areas, and for every question asked, it uses 2 liters of water.
The teacher (a real live woman) also pointed out we still need to double check the resources it provides. And where are the data farms located? How private are are queries?
Beyond that, as a therapist, I like to incorporate the interpersonal and somatics, and AI doesn’t have its own physiological feelings/emotions, or its own lived human experiences.
I still think social media is important. How else would we know about the genocide in Gaza, just to take the most horrendous example? The gift of information is not strained, to misquote Shakespeare. You get every damn thing, fake, real, good and evil. You have to develop your own filters, your own scepticism, your own analysis, but should not turn your face away from the world.
Social media is not wholly bad. Yes, you have to develop your own filters. But I was more referring to something else. A layer below that. Not the content. Yes, you have to learn how to navigate the content. But the medium itself causes changes to the way you act, think, and feel that are harmful. This has been true of previous media as well, but social media takes it to a whole new layer. One might even say the medium is the message.
I just took a class “Artificial Intelligence & Social Work Use in practice,
Ethics and the future”. One of the pieces of info I didn’t know: the centers are often in low-income areas, and for every question asked, it uses 2 liters of water.
The teacher (a real live woman) also pointed out we still need to double check the resources it provides. And where are the data farms located? How private are are queries?
Beyond that, as a therapist, I like to incorporate the interpersonal and somatics, and AI doesn’t have its own physiological feelings/emotions, or its own lived human experiences.
I still think social media is important. How else would we know about the genocide in Gaza, just to take the most horrendous example? The gift of information is not strained, to misquote Shakespeare. You get every damn thing, fake, real, good and evil. You have to develop your own filters, your own scepticism, your own analysis, but should not turn your face away from the world.
Social media is not wholly bad. Yes, you have to develop your own filters. But I was more referring to something else. A layer below that. Not the content. Yes, you have to learn how to navigate the content. But the medium itself causes changes to the way you act, think, and feel that are harmful. This has been true of previous media as well, but social media takes it to a whole new layer. One might even say the medium is the message.