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    1. “If these new technologies only speak Western languages, we’re now excluded from the digitaleconomy,” says Running Wolf. “And if you can’t even function in the digital economy, it’s going to bereally hard for [our languages] to thrive.”

      This shows that these new technologies aren't very versatile, which won't allow for it to thrive. It needs to function in the digital economy and speak numerous languages for it to be fully effective.

    1. They invoke US fair use the way colonisers invoked divine right, as if legality is just adetail that will sort itself out later.

      This is interesting to note, since legality isn't something that can be figured out by itself. This has to be done by government figures who are paying attention to these issues.

    1. One of the reasons for the mischaracterization is the lack of diversity in the datasets — thesystems simply weren’t given enough Black and brown faces to learn how to understandwhat they look like.

      This is really interesting to think about since AI only knows what it is given. This ends up making people of color less represented by AI, since they don't have information surrounding these groups of people.

    1. AI will not take over the world because it lacks independent agency, intrinsic motivation, and thecomplex, adaptable reasoning that human beings possess

      AI does not have the ability to reason and think like a human does, which makes me believe that AI will not fully take us over at this point.

    1. I don’t run because it’s necessarily fun to do, nor do I run because I’m going to be a professionalrunner

      This is a great analogy, because even though we may not like writing essays or want to be really good at it, it is still really beneficial to our future.

    1. Professors and teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled withclunky, robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn’t sound quite like a college student —or even a human.

      A lot of students think they can get away with this, when it really is so easy to tell the difference.