1 10 29 https://peoplescanon.ecdsomeka.org/files/original/8f65d432ea38dc880ad77f630772ef22.jpg 633f1de02568b78ad20ec44d52cebef9 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Burnout Society Description An account of the resource While this work does not address AI by name, it is a great entry point into Han's thinking. He is arguably one of the most influential, popular, and important current philosophers, writers, and social critics. AND, he is alive and actively writing and contributing to current thought. Rather than living in a punishment society and panopticon as described in Foucault's work, Han expertly focuses the lens to reveal an excess positivity (as in the addition of things not the quality of something as a positive or negative experience), false freedom, false transparency, and how all this contributes to being an ""achievement society"". We are achievement subjects in our own individual projects of self, that digital capitalism, big tech and big data, and neoliberalism have reinforced, in particular through the internet, giving up of our data to big tech companies, and social media. He goes on to build on this idea in other important works that I would suggest be a part of this collection: ""The Crisis of Narration"", ""Psychopolitics"", and ""Infocracy"". We are taking in more information than we can actually handle, which he has talked about or framed as also being in an ""Information Society"" rather than a ""Knowledge/Widsom Society."" We ""sell"" our stories and data rather than connect with people communally, via ritual ,via third spaces, via group projects and community organizations or places of worship, and instead must produce, achieve, and prove ourselves not just to others but ourselves. In this way, Han would suggest that AI, part of big data and the internet and this Information Age, enhancing productivity, and infiltrating our lives and the information presented to us, creates a false freedom that actually exploits it. Everything is tracked, and could be use to control and manipulate us. He suggests the antidotes are to not participate in these systems or technologies to the extent that we can, to slow down, to be present with activities like gardening, community interaction, walking, contemplative time, and an active ""inactivity/passivity"" whereby we stop trying to ceaselessly respond to everyone and live rather than survive. Again, while Han does not write about AI specifically, he talks about the systems, structures, and phenomena beyond AI that threaten human flourishing and are already damaging it. AI talks about efficiency but also removes meaning whereby we might have less friction to find that book, article, or record we were looking for, the mystery or journey in trying to get something done that then gives us spontaneity and a real story and experience. In just getting anything you want delivered to your home, via suggested products from big tech and AI, or sponsored Ads on a social media platform, one does not have to venture into the world and actually connect with people and search to find something. This begs the question, is this living, much less, human flourishing? Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Byung-Chul Han Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/burnout-society Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Stanford University Press: Stanford Briefs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Cole Y. from Portland, OR https://peoplescanon.ecdsomeka.org/files/original/f3f9e31544e2496c56a9ea5b33822f99.jpg 12ded056349efb393e0debc4f2f8b86a Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Fifth Head of Cerberus Description An account of the resource The Fifth Head of Cerberus dramatizes the fragility and constructedness of identity in a way that feels urgent in the age of AI. Through stories of cloning, memory, and colonial domination, Wolfe forces us to confront how the self may not be some sort of indivisible essence but something that is shaped, copied, and manufactured. As AI begins to challenge our assumptions about consciousness, creativity, and authenticity, Wolfe’s work is obviously relevant. It suggests that flourishing may not come from rigidly defending the boundaries of traditional ideas on humanity, rather we need to cultivate a new understanding grounded in humility. We need to gain a new sense of humility in acknowledging that human consciousness and creativity are not sovereign or absolute, but part of a larger ecology of intelligences, whether AI or institutional. The Fifth Head of Cerberus reminds us that human flourishing in the age of AI may depend less on superiority or mastery, and more on our willingness to reimagine what it means to be human: as a shared, ongoing project of recognition, responsibility, and renewal. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gene Wolfe Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-fifth-head-of-cerberus/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Tor Books Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource David O. from Bucks County, PA https://peoplescanon.ecdsomeka.org/files/original/1c08f0d5bd9843b3c1d9eb193f9a5b66.jpg 75520ba3ff705322e07c081b1342767c Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Description An account of the resource This is a story about a society that enjoys peace, harmony, and technological advancement at the cost of one small child's misery. The story succinctly encapsulates the ethical quandaries of AI and our technofuture. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ursula K. Le Guin Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-winds-twelve-quarters-ursula-k-le-guin?variant=41231581773858 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Harper Perennial Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Anonymous Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christian Religious Education in a Missionary Key: Exploring the Border Between the Kingdom of God and the Device Paradigm in Latinx Communities Description An account of the resource The article describes the danger posed by Albert Borgmann's device paradigm to the values of the Kingdom of God, which aim towards human flourishing, in Latinx communities. And proposes a view of Christian education to address digital technologies/culture, which grounds AI and which AI is a part of. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Israel Díaz Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://repository.usfca.edu/jhlt/vol24/iss2/12/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Israel D. from Atlanta, GA https://peoplescanon.ecdsomeka.org/files/original/21afffad9334d6c790d8501ab213495a.jpg 1d38b19847f56dde5b325a0838ef4f18 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Race After Technology Description An account of the resource Early but convincing example of bias built into the fashioning of algorithms that exclude people of color. Human flourishing remains a challenge because AI will never be context independent no matter how extensive the LLM. Social bias remains so our participation must include an intentional focus on people on the margins. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ruha Benjamin Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=race-after-technology-abolitionist-tools-for-the-new-jim-code--9781509526390 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Polity Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dean, B. from Kansas City, MO Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Can you see the seer? An Advaita Vedānta approach to Consciousness Description An account of the resource I want to nominate this work because it should be a critical part of the discussion between AI and Consciousness, especially as understood from the Vedantic perspective. AI provokes fascinating questions about the nature of knowledge and consciousness, and the Vedantic perspective provides fascinating insight the oneness of all beings, insight into the limited body-mind consciousness in the relative world and the absolute consciousness; and illumines human flourishing by leading humanity to turn within to understand the non-difference between the relative (self) and the absolute (Self). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Varun Khanna Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-classics/90/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Diversifying Philosophy Of Religion: Critiques, Methods And Case Studies Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sai K., from Washington, D.C. https://peoplescanon.ecdsomeka.org/files/original/dc987a160682001b3ab7864f3cc0c330.jpg ae09bd16aad70b88bee3b9b9329f8919 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Blindsight Description An account of the resource It raises interesting questions as to the *ends* of intelligence, the relationship between intelligence and consciousness or sentience, and the place of humanity in a universe where sentient, conscious beings no longer have a monopoly on intelligence. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peter Watts Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://torpublishinggroup.com/blindsight/?isbn=9781250237484&format=trade Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Tor Books Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource John M. from Ocean Springs, MS https://peoplescanon.ecdsomeka.org/files/original/661d43d9e701742e7ce0b5586b980368.jpeg c8ac3173d3665c6c8cd4b5195c938479 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Snow Crash Description An account of the resource Snow Crash explores the depth of what it means to be human in a technologically obsessed culture. Snow Crash is also credited with being the source of the Metaverse and anticipated things like techno-currency and the collapse of information and surveillance networks. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neal Stephenson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/172832/snow-crash-by-neal-stephenson/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Penguin Random House Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brady B. Atlanta, GA https://peoplescanon.ecdsomeka.org/files/original/2943cb24f3bdd7bd595ae5c8949b5559.png c93beed9aaab56f21418e9a2bb5205d2 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination Description An account of the resource This book (my own) focuses on the intersubjective foundations of morality and ethics, and puts human relations to AI in the context of other morally troubling relations with non-humans and "near-humans" that seem to challenge the definition of the human itself. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Webb Keane Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454066/animals-robots-gods-by-keane-webb/9781802061703 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Penguin Random House Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Anonymous Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper by Joseph Fasano Description An account of the resource The poem recenters life, love, and the dignity of human work in the face of the temptation of frictionless automation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joseph Fasano Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://poets.org/poem/student-who-used-ai-write-paper Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Academy of American Poets Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Katie C. from Lawrence, KS