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What is the point of making intelligent agents?

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It’s strange to me that AI and HCI (human-computer interaction), as fields, are not more connected. AI, loosely, is the work of creating and using “intelligent” algorithms, while HCI tries to think about how we can use our algorithms in better ways for people. This work seems highly complementary, although at times antagonistic. While HCI people seem to do this much more, I think it’s healthy for AI people to also be questioning what we are creating our intelligent algorithms

It’s strange to me that AI and HCI (human-computer interaction), as fields, are not more connected. AI, loosely, is the work of creating and using “intelligent” algorithms, while HCI tries to think about how we can use our algorithms in better ways for people. This work seems highly complementary, although at times antagonistic. While HCI people seem to do this much more, I think it’s healthy for AI people to also be questioning what we are creating our intelligent algorithms for. This post is kind of an anti-AI one. It explores the lack of affordances and disempowerment baked into the…

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