The Humanities Can't Save Big Tech From Itself | WIRED
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Hiring sociocultural workers to correct bias overlooks the limitations of these underappreciated fields.
Save this story Save this story The AI Database → Application Ethics Surveillance End User Big company Startup The problem with tech, many declare, is its quantitative inclination, its “hard” math deployed in the softer human world. Tech is Mark Zuckerberg: all turning pretty girls into numbers and raving about the social wonders of the metaverse while so awkward in every human interaction that he is instantly memed. The human world contains Zuck, but it is also everything he fails at so spectacularly. That failure, the lack of social and ethical chops, is one many believe he shares with the i
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