How to Survive AI
A superpower over the next few years will be the ability to focus, concentrate, and hold your attention for long periods on what truly matters, amid increasing distractions and temptations.
If you look at the world, basically after the industrial revolution we could set a certain course for the information age, or AI age. We are moving so fast in so-called technology because that generates a huge profit and can dominate in many ways for profit making. Humanity is the fast-deteriorating area, much worse than the so-called environment r... See more
Alain Elkann • Ai Weiwei
McLuhan argued that, pushed to its limits, a medium flips or reverses its characteristics.
Internet scale pushes information into disinformation, connection into loneliness, and desire into apathy.
The message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.
The language of "tasks" enables white-collar Taylorism. We should push back.