I want to be clear on my position: technologists are inherently political actors in the modern world. From Oppenheimer to Fei-Fei Li, who recently warned about AI misinformation and the risk of harmful overregulation [1], builders of technology have shaped some of the most politically consequential acts of our time. Social media is a primary example, with both primary impacts (those who control data and communication shape perception, erode democratic norms, and enable author

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Avatar created with Kling AI You could say the general definition of a cyborg is an entity that fuses biological and artificial systems for enhanced function. For the purposes of this thought experiment, where I will explore how cybernetic beings can create autonomy in our current digital ecosystem , I will narrow the definition. A cyborg is a biologically human-centered entity that couples with AI for extended (or enhanced) cognition. Even with this, there are many ways a

When I re-entered the traditional job market after almost a decade away, I was shocked to see a completely new ecosystem of algorithms, ranking, parsing, and filtering. This disturbing trend bled into my Carnegie Mellon University application today for a PhD program, where I was required to submit a video essay with only 3 tries, each new take deleting the prior. This behavior propagates a newer phenomenon occurring with the exponential rise of artificial intelligence to opt