🗣️ AISW #123: Jenn McRae, Canada-based writer and strategist

Canada-based writer and strategist Jenn McRae shares her experiences with using AI professionally and personally, and how she feels about how AI is using people's data and works.This interview by Karen Smiley is part of our AI6P interview series on "AI, Software, and Wetware". It showcases how real people around the world are using their wetware (brains) with AI-based software tools or are being affected by AI. The article includes a full human-edited transcript.6 'P's in AI Pods (AI6P) is a 100% reader-supported publication. All new posts are FREE to read; not all have audio. To automatically receive all new AI6P episodes and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber!🫛 In this edition of AI, Software, and Wetware, Jenn McRae and Karen Smiley discuss:- AI as a cognitive prosthetic and reducing the ‘translation tax’- How Claude tried and failed to build her a floor planner app- Persecution of writers who use AI in their writing process (note: this interview was recorded on June 23, a month before Substack announced integration of Pangram ‘AI detection’ scoring)- The resemblance between gestalt language processing (common in autistic cognition) and how an LLM will treat tokens as units of meaning- Why she believes that “there is no ethical participation under capitalism” is not a license to not care or to excuse oneself from pursuing more ethical options- How data is being used in Canada recently as more government and bureaucratic work is outsourced to private professional services firms (many US-based)and more. Check it out, and let us know what you think! Get full access to 6 'P's in AI Pods (AI6P) at sixpeas.substack.com/subscribe