Unit 2- Week 4

I absolutely loved the lecture we had about AI and the future of work because it practically laid out the considerations we should have with the information that exists about AI. It made me think of how now a days we are constantly talking about how to prepare for the future, but the truth is, we don’t really know what we are preparing for so it’s -in a way- kinda useless. Are we simply telling ourselves lies to move forward? Nevertheless, the reflections on the means of work were extremely enriching, and in the end, AI is just that, a means of work, much like the hammer that once revolutionized the way understand manual work.

Despite these advances that seem so relevant, making us understand society as such a complex figure, this week we witnessed how we are still so primarly human. There was an act of bullying in a class which lead to a lot of conflict and segregation between our classes. I found it absolutely unbelievable that this was happening in a master’s class, and especially that the next day we all went to a lecture as if none of it had happened. I know that handling such situations is complicated, but I would have liked to hear a more active and immediate response to inappropriate behaviors by certain individuals. On my part, I can’t stop thinking that it is important to initiate a disciplinary process since bullying and such behaviors reflect a superiority complex that NO ONE should have, and it deeply hurts that this occurred in front of everyone. This course is obsessed with the word “positionality,” and sometimes I feel we have used it to our advantage because we prefer to remain silent rather when we should shout and manifest our inconformities.

But who prepares you for that?