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This poem is featured in Mary Oliver’s extraordinary On Being conversation with Krista — one of the few in-depth interviews she gave in her lifetime: “I got saved by the beauty of the world.” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/mary-oliver-i-got-saved-by-the-beauty-of-the-world
She published over 25 books of poetry and prose, including Dream Work, A Thousand Mornings, and A Poetry Handbook. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 for her book American Primitive. Her final work, Devotions, is a collection of poetry from her more than 50-year career, curated by the poet herself. She died in 2019.
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This poem is featured in Mary Oliver’s extraordinary On Being conversation with Krista — one of the few in-depth interviews she gave in her lifetime: “I got saved by the beauty of the world.” Listen here: onbeing.org/programs/mary-oliver-i-got-saved-by-the-beauty-of-the-world
She published over 25 books of poetry and prose, including Dream Work, A Thousand Mornings, and A Poetry Handbook. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 for her book American Primitive. Her final work, Devotions, is a collection of poetry from her more than 50-year career, curated by the poet herself. She died in 2019.
ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time
THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more.
We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
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![[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y9exAbF0wVY/mqdefault.jpg "[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett
You may not know Latanya Sweeneys name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all the algorithms by which we increasingly navigate our lives.
In this conversation with Krista, she brings a helpful big-picture view to our lives with technology, seeing how far weve come — and not — since the advent of the internet, and setting that in the context of history both industrial and digital. She insists that we dont have to accept the harms of digital technology in order to reap its benefits — and she sees very clearly the work that will take. From where she sits, the new generative AI is in equal measure an exciting and alarming evolution. And she shares with us the questions she is asking, and how she and her students and the emerging field of Public Interest Technology might help us all make sense.
This is the second in what will be an ongoing occasional On Being episode to delve into and accompany our lives with this new technological revolution — training clear eyes on downsides and dangers while cultivating an attention to how we might elevate the new frontier of AI — and how, in fact, it might invite us more deeply into our humanity.
This interview is unedited and uses autogenerated closed captioning. You can find the edited and produced interview with music and full closed captioning in the On Being episode Latanya Sweeney — On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose. Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2W96Pt7OXc
Animation by: Neon Zoo, @weareneonzoo
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A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time
THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.
On Being with Krista Tippett: https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/
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