Week 2 · Day 3 — The Nose
The instrument you were handed was built for counting people. Today, nine other ways navigate this medium for insight.
TL;DR
- AI is framed as a "Large Listening Medium" that reflects human assumptions.
- Traditional research approaches, including surveys and segmentation, have violent origins in colonial practices and discriminatory policies.
- Statistical significance is linked to figures associated with the Eugenics Society.
- A thousand reviews of a meditation app from 2017-2024 are used as pre-AI data.
- Ten methods for navigating AI are presented, drawing parallels to how intelligence manifests in nature and human intuition.
- A protocol is introduced to force AI to predict its defaults before analysis, allowing for a check against its predetermined conclusions.
- The goal is to produce a claim about a thousand strangers and identify a way to disprove it.