AI Literacy 2 min read

Introducing AI Literacy

Astronomical plate of stars whose distances are best known

Welcome to AI literacy, a new section of Being in Space (updated breakdown of sections).

It builds on other writing and spaces (On Creativity, What is Work, Everything Will Happen) that were looking to understand (1) what all of this (tech in this case) means, (2) for you.

You can expect links and essays, original writing, and other material that will hopefully allow you to reframe what you’re reading in the news, or what you’re asked to use by your IT department, into actionable and contextualized thinking that integrates with your way of doing your job and the culture you operate within.


As a primer, I created a site with essays and book suggestions on the topic of AI: https://library.in-process.net/everything-will-happen

I would be delighted to help sift and contextualize.
Please feel free to reply to this email with any questions.

For today’s post, I will highlight some books from this:

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