Tag: tool trope
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Are Software Developers More Productive With AI Assistance?
Questions about studies that claim more efficient software development, with better questions to consider.
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Should Christians Harness Generative AI Chatbots As A Force For Good?
Hard questions following Pat Gelsinger’s keynote at CCU, his company Gloo, his use of the tool trope, and whether Christians are forming an idolatrous trust in generative AI chatbots.
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What Could Possibly Be Wrong With AI Summaries?
Because AI summaries are pushed on the world from on high, few of us ask the “should we?” question. Or stop to question the tacit beliefs we hold.
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Is GenAI a Neutral Tool For Good or Evil? The Tool Trope Refocused.
Is GenAI a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil? Certainly not. We’re the tools that are shaped by it, as usual.
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AI and the Destructive Lies of the Tool Trope
My first public push-back against what I call the tool trope: “technology isn’t good or bad; it’s a tool, it’s just how you use it that matters.”
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Does Social Media Help or Hinder Discipleship? Responding to the Brady Shearer Critique
This past week, the rock-star digital media strategist Brady Shearer published a YouTube critique of my interview with Preston Sprinkle. He has 54k Instagram followers, 97k TikTok followers, and 134k YouTube subscribers. He’s super-smart and well-spoken. I’m grateful for a dialog with someone so accomplished. This is an in-depth and important conversation, so it’s long.…