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If user are not confident the IT is reliable, they won't use it.

Data is fine, but if it isn't ethically collected and properly interpreted, it is a waste at best, and likely harmful.

Laws are different from regulations. Policies are different from procedures. Standards are different from all of them.

Remember Goodhart’s Law — when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. We need to make decisions in its light more frequently than we do.

“Have AI write your resume and cover letter to get it past the AI scanning tools.”

Is this where “data-driven” decisions have taken us?

“AI resume screeners are terrific at rejecting qualified candidates.”

Algorithms are unforgiving when making decisions.

Hiding your face isn’t having privacy. Living in a society where you don’t have to hide your face is having privacy.

Normally my patience with pseudo science is a little longer. You know it might even be an effective placebo I would think.

But, I'm discovering that this kind of thing just makes me angry now.

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Hey teachers... if you are ignoring AI, you are becoming irrelevant.

Why am I just learning about ʻOumuamua now?

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

The aim of education is to teach students to think for themselves, not to think like someone else.

Ask questions you don’t know how to answer.

“Cockamamie optimism” is my favorite phrase.

Before the Mars Curiosity rover was launched, it was swabbed, and 60 species of microbes were on it. Perhaps we are on Mars.

“Science loves an anomaly.” Science may not, but scientists do.

People are more likely to use technology they perceive as easy to use and useful for their tasks.

It's in the dictionary, but that does not mean it is real.

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