🔥 Burger Picture French Rotter: In Community #71

Your weekly boost of positive energy centering BIPOC leaders, creators, and culture-makers

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“The future of artificial intelligence is not about man vs. machine, but rather man with machine. Together, we can achieve unimaginable heights of innovation and progress.” – FeiFei Li, known as the godmother of AI

This week’s subject line was generated by AI. Probably not in the way you’d expect – it’s likely much simpler.

When I wrote about SZA’s connection to tariffs last week, perception and reality were a core element. With AI, both our perception and its perception define the reality of our experience with it.

Credit: My phone’s brilliant voicemail transcription

In the case of Burger Picture, it’s a poorly transcribed voicemail message left for me by a human at my bank, henceforth to be referred to as Cheese Bank. Harmless and light, the errors in this underscore a larger question.

👉🏽 How are the rapid advances in AI shaping our reality, and what impact will it have?

Think back to just a few years ago when social media platforms became ubiquitous. Most of us weren’t aware of the impact they would have on our social connectedness, mental and physical health, and beyond.

Like FeiFei Li, Co-Director of the Stanford University Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI) and Co-founder/CEO of World Labs, I believe that we need to continuously focus our energy on the human impact.

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Today, when it comes to understanding responsible AI’s risks vs. taking action on them, there’s a tangible gap. There are gaps in access and infrastructure, and there are gaps in its broad impact on the environment and sustainability.

Why does this matter? We’re in a moment where AI is already embedded in nearly all parts of our daily lives, even if we don’t fully understand.

We’ve already seen that when systems aren’t designed for us to thrive, we feel the negative impact – if not immediately, then over time.

This is a moment to rethink the models and outcomes, to embed ourselves into the conversations, and to take action by being in the spaces where the development is happening.

If we don’t make sure our voices are being heard loud and clear, the impact over time may not be so harmless.

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Fahad