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Stanford launched its Human-centered Artificial Intelligence institute five years ago, but it wasn’t until recently that the center’s founders tried to narrow down what they actually meant by “human-centered AI.”
As you look out over the last five years, how would you rate the tech industry on the way it’s incorporated human-centered thinking into the design of its AI products? When you can integrate that kind of thinking into the actual teams that have technologists, but also have designers and social scientists and other people different skills, some of the problems are caught earlier on. Those people have social capital, they’re part of the team. And they have better influence to change the direction.
So, disinformation — this is a thing that these models could be very easily trained to do. Another area that we know is already going on is the second D — deepfakes. We see that, whether it wasbeing used against young girls. And then, finally, discrimination and bias — models being misused for making certain decisions, whether it’s hiring, housing, finance, where we know the models can have problems.
I think from applications, education, health — you’re going to see AI involved in a lot of that. My wife just had some diagnostics, and they clearly were using some AI algorithm to help make some decision on one of her tests. That’s going to be the norm in 10 years. AI algorithms are going to be involved in a lot of how our health data is interpreted.
But I don’t think it will happen by itself. I think we actually have to talk about it, and we have to say this is what we want. And we have to give people tools to think about how to design it that way. Because technologists, I think, will default to, “How do I just replace the person?” And many companies will default to, “How do I replace that person and just make more money?” And so I think we need to shape that future we want or else it might not happen.
Bradford said he fell into drug use soon after arriving in the Tenderloin, with a disability while unhoused. But after some time, he found housing in a single-room-occupancy facility with the TNDC — and, he said, he has been sober for the last 13 years. “Our community represents a disproportionate number of the unhoused — people fleeing persecution, whether it be internationally, or at this point, nationally,” said Honey Mahogany, a transgender activist and the director of the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives.
But it’s not just the neighborhood’s organizations and services that attract LGBTQ+ folks, Bradford said, it’s the sense of community itself. The Tenderloin establishments are accepting of all, Bradford said, although there are fewer queer bars and clubs in the neighborhood than there used to be, particularly on lower Polk Street.
“New kids are coming in a lot,” he said. “They don’t understand some of the things that went on years and years ago, so we still share stories about the past while looking forward to the future.” The committee supporting the tax proposition, which was worked out with the mayor and other top city officials, had already received $770,000 in contributions by the end of June, according to a disclosure filing. Proponents had spent $553,743 of the money raised.
The measure, titled the “Local Small Business Tax Cut Ordinance,” needs just over 50% approval from voters in November to pass. In addition, organizers say the proposed measure would cut $10 million in fees and simplify the tax system. One hope is that eliminating complexity will reduce the potential for conflicts with taxpayers — in recent years, The City has paid out tens of millions of dollars inSmall-business owners would benefit because the measure would raise the exemption threshold for paying The City’s gross-receipts tax rise from around $2 million to $5 million.
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