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ME, MYSELF & A.I.: How I Learned to Love the Machine That Took my Job
Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao

ME, MYSELF & A.I.: How I Learned to Love the Machine That Took my Job

As artificial intelligence’s capabilities continue to expand, there’s a growing anxiety that the impending AI Revolution may automate more jobs than it creates—triggering a crisis of worker displacement to rival the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. In response, Will Crum developed Me, Myself and A.I.: How I Learned to Love the Machine That Took my Job, a thesis of speculative designs that imagine near and distant futures where AI is used to increase individual agency—not diminish it. Crum’s proposals and provocations address access to work and other ways to protect human dignity in an automated age.

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GENTLEmen: Challenging Adults to Raise Feminine Boys
Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao Thesis, Student work, Student Projects, Blog Krithi Rao

GENTLEmen: Challenging Adults to Raise Feminine Boys

In his thesis GENTLEmen: Challenging Adults to Raise Feminine Boys, Andrew Schlesinger explores gender identity, masculinity, stereotyping, parenting, education, and male culture. Andrew has been investigating the restrictive nature placed on men and the necessity for them to conform to a masculine ideal, which is destructive to themselves and those around them. Through the feminist movement, most would acknowledge there has been a significant approach towards teaching girls traditionally masculine traits. This thesis argues we need a similar, foundational shift to teach boys feminine traits.

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