Ever call someone you didn’t intend to by “butt dial?”
I keep my phone in my pocket, and given how tight my jeans have become, watching the operations happening there have become a spectator sport. Me seeing what my butt’s done now.
My most recent butt-dial-style discovery have gone up a level. Today butt-administration of my home screen accurately pegged some genuinely productive ‘areas’ for me. Go figure. This type of surprise is always good for a laugh, and occasionally good for art and/or thinking about societal-level tech issues1 too.
It’s possible my iPhone is enacting some AI assistance, but I don’t think so because I never signed onto this.
The ironies are fun though.
And now for some basic butt photos that will most certainly not break the internet.
Societal Application/Amelioration:
I’m thinking, the more oddball things happen with phones, smart appliances, and even Siri and Alexa picking up voices, along with increasingly automatic (and tracked) operations, the more elderly folks will need help to manage their day to day activities as it relates to basic tech.
Honestly, the sheer amount of garbage spam, loan offers, salary and “reduce your email quota” spam messages I get, along with overt phishing texting, the more concerned I grow about elderly citizens and how they’ll function and protect themselves in an increasingly complicated tech environment.
Automatons, AI, and even just tech-related hiccups like mine above can feel “spooky” and confusing to folks who don’t understand â or can’t easily infer â what actually happened. And it doesn’t mean they are dumb. It means there’s just too much of it intertwined with basic life stuff – like calling people, buying a coffee, and checking your email.
I’ve worked with/in tech for 25+ years and sometimes even I get waylaid by sensations around the observation of my data attached and web usage. I can only imagine how highly attuned, less tech-savvy folks feel. My heart goes out to them. Help ’em out when you can!
FOOTNOTES & SUB-SUBTEXT đ
- Lately I see people splitting into groups based on their preferred tech and media diets. This fracturing is only benefiting a few groups, mostly economically, rarely the culture or humanity in general.
Honestly, I would like to talk with some folks about this â who are really spearheading HOW AI & technology roll outs should go and what we need to do to mitigate against negative effects on humans (and/or needed guardrails and safeguards to protect our greatest asset, our people).
There are ramifications on top of ramifications on sensitive people, and greater society when privacy and individualism is greatly shaken by data peering and brokering, not too mention AI! People matter most here, so must be placed as highest value: above efficiency, commerce and even innovation.
I often feel like I’m “interfacing” with AI, not unlike Vulcan mind meld, and this is because, I am. Quite practically, even though I avoid it most days. This is a unique time in human evolution. Almost akin to if an alien life form landed here and wanted to hang out with us and we shared knowlege. Seriously, who else is planning what we may need to do to assure our vulnerable populations can carry on successfully (in this case, vulnerable may mean tech people themselves.)? âŠī¸
