Wren > Recent Status Updates

It’s so absurd that they’re doing these drills. It’s not the 1950s (is that the right decade?)

“The company was asking us to simply trust their word without showing how the system was trained. When it comes to AI systems, trust must be earned and not assumed”

“‘I cannot pay like a tech start-up, but what I can teach you will set you up to go beyond me. Learn from all of us and be better.’”

“AI systems can kill us slowly.”
Which is why we need to be specific about what you mean by AI. Generative AI is different than predictive AI. Etc etc

As someone who also purports that I work in tech to do good, I also have this question about what I am doing good at and who am I doing good for.
“What assumptions about using AI for good are being made by people far removed from the day to day realities of those they aim to help?”

“But when just doing your job can mean someone else’s life chances are at stake, there has to be a higher standard. Doing your job doesn’t excuse harm”

“‘This might seem obvious to you, but you are going to need to draw the connections so people understand what you are talking about.’” Feels like a lesson I need to learn

“We cannot assume that just because something is data driven or processed by an algorithm it is immune to bias”

“The status quo was built with a disregard for consent”

“Stepping beyond a colonial past does not decolonize the mind”

These examples show how bias can be coded in many ways, across ability status and race and more. It’s the idea that systems are so deeply entrenched across multiple lines that improving the lives of one group can improve the lives of many

“The internet does not represent all human knowledge.”

“Financial incentives can spark ingenuity.”

“We cannot use AI to sidestep the hard work of organizing society so that where you are born, the resources of your community, and the labels placed upon you are not the primary determinants of your destiny.”

It’s interesting to think that she wrote a new reality and gave it a new ending

Possession?

“Everything tasted different here, spiced with the authentic Manila climate and garnished with the taste of ease”

Non consensual house blessing is new

The internet is changing so fast that the communities of yesterday and today feel so different but still so similar

This type of writing is just not for me. It feels so pretentious

“Some people write to make sense of what they’ve experienced”

“She wasn’t willing to destroy herself for this job […] - the way I was - and the worse parts of me resented her for it”

It’s interesting to mourn an enemy. But it also makes sense that hating a single person is easier than an amorphous conglomerate

It’s interesting to mourn an enemy. But it also makes sense that hating a single person is easier than an amorphous conglomerate

“I would adapt to this, like I had to everything else. I returned to the vanity paint myself into a new person.”

I literally remember none of the first book, so this one is very confusing

“‘You are a daughter. You were already lost to me from the day you were born.’”
If

If Kai is Korean or Chinese, his mother giving him a Japanese name is ballsy

Minsuk’s not coming back, isnt he

“‘War’ was a big word when I was young. But I grew bigger and it grew smaller. There are so many wars around us we’ve gotten used to them.”