Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, ask applicants not to use AI in their applications:
“We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills“
There’s an irony here, sure, but also I’d argue it’s very sensible to be clear about when AI is useful/expected/appropriate, and when it isn’t. One of the issues is that people aren’t having those kind of conversations or disclosures up front.
This aside, the article also chimed with a passage I read on the train this morning, about rewilding human connection:
“As author Mark Bekoff (2014) explains, rewilding involves building not simply physical pathways between protected areas but interpersonal ones between people. Bekoff suggests a rewilding of the heart wherein people create corridors of compassion and coexistence not only with plants and animals but also with fellow human beings.”
(Is Wildness Over?, Paul Wapner, emphasis mine)
Sorting the wheat of decent, meaningful connections from the chaff of … low-effort, low-meaning connections – this has always been part of the world, but it feels like it’s fast becoming an essential to staying sane, let alone productive. The hyper-digital world is one of algorithms and infinity, not one that exists at the scale of individual.
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