Dr. Casey Fiesler on Nostr: As someone who does work on ethical speculation, as a reminder, being future-thinking ...

As someone who does work on ethical speculation, as a reminder, being future-thinking and imagining possible harms doesn't mean designing towards sentient AI or the robot wars. The point of e.g. the Black Mirror Writers Room teaching exercise is to practice speculation as a skill so that you can better think through the actual, immediate harms of your tech. Focusing too, um, long term, can really lose the plot. https://medium.com/cuinfoscience/the-black-mirror-writers-room-the-case-and-caution-for-ethical-speculation-in-cs-education-5c81d05d2c67