Categories: Artificial IntelligencePersonal AssistantsTechnology

“Technology is not neutral”

Credit: https://twitter.com/carolinekealey/status/1241784867777589251

Interesting article by Tristan Harris. It talks about how technology platforms can take stance in global epidemic (or other similar) situations instead of trying to be neutral. “From Inform to Persuade.I agree with the design principles. I think such principles are even more important when applied to AI-powered natural human-agent interaction experiences.

BTW… For those of you who somehow have been lucky enough to not hear me talk about how inspiring I find the “This Panda is Dancing” poem, you should know that it was created by the predecessor org, “Time Well Spent”, to the “Center of Humane Technology” of which Tristan is the CEO.

Savas Parastatidis

Savas Parastatidis works at Amazon as a Sr. Principal Engineer in Alexa AI'. Previously, he worked at Microsoft where he co-founded Cortana and led the effort as the team's architect. While at Microsoft, Savas also worked on distributed data storage and high-performance data processing technologies. He was involved in various e-Science projects while at Microsoft Research where he also investigated technologies related to knowledge representation & reasoning. Savas also worked on language understanding technologies at Facebook. Prior to joining Microsoft, Savas was a Principal Research Associate at Newcastle University where he undertook research in the areas of distributed, service-oriented computing and e-Science. He was also the Chief Software Architect at the North-East Regional e-Science Centre where he oversaw the architecture and the application of Web Services technologies for a number of large research projects. Savas worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Hewlett Packard where he co-lead the R&D effort for the industry's Web Service transactions service and protocol. You can find out more about Savas at https://savas.me/about