When we make active decisions about how we spend our time and decide where to invest it, we are practising the concept of social economising. Michelle Drouin calls social economising the greatest hack of all time because it makes us realise that technology doesn’t control us. One way you can practise social economising is through omission; carve out intimate times and spaces where your phone is off limits, like dinner time and the bedroom, to curb your screen time. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
