Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised'
“"AI is sold as a tool for creators, but it's designed to erase them, cheap, fast, and infinitely scalable. And here’s the thing: we’re doing this to ourselves. We call it innovation. It’s actually a slow-motion cultural extinction. We’re participants in our own cultural and economic erasure."
I suspect we humans do better with constraints; the Internet stripped away the constraint of physical distribution, and now AI is removing the constraint of needing to actually produce content. That this is spoiling the Internet is perhaps the best hope for finding our way back to what is real. Let the virtual world be one of customized content for... See more
Ben Thompson • Regretful Accelerationism
Our discomfort with this indifference manifests in a predictable pattern: we try to turn AI into a comprehensible villain. In reference to Girard, every society is built, in part, on the ritual of scapegoating, a mechanism by which collective anxieties, rivalries, and fears are projected onto a villain or outcast, thereby restoring temporary order ... See more