9 neighbours have shared what matters to them — in their own words.
“What concerns me about AI currently is that if we are able to use it well, without destroying the environment or disadvantaging you know, people and not spoiling different existing resources, etc. But if we're able to use it well in a balanced way, is the concern. So, a lot of governance on how AI needs to be directed is required. Also, there's a tendency that of disappearing arts and craft practices because AI can do it also is a worrying thing that we don't delegate everything to AI. So, it needs careful consideration.”
Nearby, the main topics are a mix of technological advancement and community needs. Significant concerns revolve around the ethical and environmental implications of AI 💡, including the urgent need for robust governance, managing high energy consumption, protecting personal data, and preserving traditional arts. There are also local challenges such as a lack of jobs and specific training in organic farming, alongside calls for improved public service infrastructure and more efficient ways for grassroots communities to report issues and have their voices heard. Positively, residents recognize AI's potential as a powerful 'force multiplier' and are keen on developing sustainable agricultural practices 🚜 and fostering better citizen engagement 🗣️.
“At least in programming and development, I'm able to almost do the work of three to five people at any time. So it's a uh unlike any other time this uh you know, power has been there. So it's it's definitely a great force multiplier and allows us to do multiple many things very powerfully. So the interesting thing is to see what can we do with so much power.”
“Hi, we are reporting a lack of jobs and training here in our constituency. We would like agriculture, organic farming, training in our constituency.”
“Hi, we are thinking of ways where grassroots uh people can report their issues in a very efficient way and can see the synthesis of the community easily.”
“Hello, there should be better infrastructure for public services. People suffer and there are no systems that are supporting public voices. We need infrastructure developed.”
“we keep hearing high energy usage in AI. we would really like to know uh how to reduce the high energy usage.”
“So one another consideration is that currently AI is trained on all data that is known by humans, right? Human generated or different sort of data we know. Uh but considering that is a very small amount of stuff that we know, a lot of things are built on unknown. I'm worried that AI being thought of as an expert is very limited in its ability, you know. So uh so yeah, we still don't know anything about the unknown and that uh is just left out of any new uh thought or innovation.”
“I'm a new farmer here and I'm looking to start farming on a barren piece of land. I need some locally sourced organic inputs and how to make soil and some information on starting a new farm. Please help.”
“individuality and its safety and exploitation of personal data and safety of a person and its his or her family uh seems very uh important and that's a big concern uh when using AI if those things are respected.”
