Our Dystopian AI Future Isn't Skynet. It's a "For You" Algorithm Stomping on a Human Face Forever
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Our Dystopian AI Future Isn't Skynet. It's a "For You" Algorithm Stomping on a Human Face Forever
omnipresent technologies that are governed according to opaque algorithms and whose often-arbitrary, hugely consequential decisions are outside the reach of existing laws. Seen in that context, it shouldn’t be a surprise that her state of alarm resonated with people who came across her videos.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Opinion | Will A.I. Be a Creator or a Destroyer of Worlds?
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What’s left is a runaway process. A sequence of product releases masquerading as progress. Every “small update” contains untested implications. Every “upgrade” shifts the terrain just a little more. Until suddenly a world exists where AI runs parts of the labor market, moderates political discourse, generates synthetic research, and no one remember... See more
The illusion persists because there’s so much money in it. Back in 2016, Ben Thompson wrote that Google’s AI efforts were at odds with its business model: “If a user doesn’t have to choose from search results, said user also doesn’t have the opportunity to click an ad, thus choosing the winner of the competition Google created between its advertise... See more