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Essentials of Deliberative Democratic Evaluation: Inclusion (opens the original)
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In this three-part series I’m going to provide an explanation of the three most important concepts in democratic evaluation, calling back to the best text this school of evaluation produced Values in Evaluation and Social Research by Ernest House and Kenneth Howe (1999).1 As the title implies this text is not only useful for evaluators but for anyone who conducts or uses social science research. House and Howe state the requirements of deliberative democratic evaluation clearly:<s
On Agreeing with AI (opens the original)
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The phenomenon of humans and AI agreeing with each other has already received abundant commentary under the header of sycophancy, which is what happens when AI appears to bend its judgment to support the ideas of whomever it is currently talking to. However, a paper recently crossed my desk that got me thinking about what is arguably a much bigger problem with human-AI agreement. Like most big issues in AI, this one seems to be more of a human problem than a technical one. The problem is that we
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