Democracy & the AI Question

The production of ignorance and not-knowing is rife in an information ecosystem increasingly mediated by AI. As a result, we mistake probabilistic guesses for ‘hallucinations.’ We mistake reflections in a mirror for a prediction about the future. We mistake uncertainty for risk we can manage. We mistake the production of ignorance for intelligence.... See more

The ultimate risk of AI

Key takeaways:

• In the future, searching on Google may be replaced by asking Google a question and receiving a direct answer.

• Language models regulated by a governing body could narrow down information and ideas to acceptable speech.

• Maintaining the reputation and trustworthiness of a source of information is important to p

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Perhaps leaning so hard as I have on democracy will only cause it to snap. Perhaps we need another word; perhaps the word can be refurbished and put to better use. Either way, technology is sure to be drafted in the cause. A further fruit of Langdon Winner’s reflections on artifacts and politics is an observation about the amnesia that surrounds in

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