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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

The lack of phone signal hampered the coordination of logistics and provision of materials from the nearest town, while the lack of road access to the community centre meant all tools and materials had to be carried to Thastayoc from the nearest road. PERIPHERALISATION – being forced to live on the periphery, or outskirts, of a city.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. There are things we “just want to do”—as a “social matter”, for “entertainment”, for “personal satisfaction”, etc. And in biology it shows up as some structure (ribosome, cell, wing, etc.) It’s very much like with ChatGPT.

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