You have missed an important piece in the AI debate. That is the cost in terms of energy and water consumption that AI requires, along with the very real decisions made by very real plutocrats about who suffers the side effects of pollution generated by the power creation and deficit of potable water. AI is indeed "artificial" in the sense of created by humans, but very much NOT "intelligent" in the sense of being able to make consistent and reasonable decisions based on any conceptual framework except that built in by the creators of the particular AI entity. All AI can be "socialized" to transmit the stance of its creators without revealing that its' outputs are determined by that stance.
I commend the effort, but ultimately, the best way to protect against authoritarian capture of AI is to not elect authoritarians and putting them in charge.
This will ultimately require a change of consciousness and ethics in the electorate and frankly in political and other institutional leadership.
AI is but the latest technology in this period of Technosphere.
on a different level of description, the democratic 'benefits' of AI are most significantly tactics to protect people from the authoritarian abuses of AI. and how we been doin' in that particular game of "humanity in technologyland"? i usta think that the devolution of the species was to reduce ourselves to social insect level of consciousness. but now, having aged thru most of my life, i see that we are trying to mechanize ourselves. at the moment, we're steeling ourselves for another round of a cartoon-like existence (for some interim period) in which big fishes eating smaller fishes, and those not busy gobbling are those who are being gobbled. and if you don't get involved to defend those being gobbled, it may be too late for you. Fight the fascism.
You have missed an important piece in the AI debate. That is the cost in terms of energy and water consumption that AI requires, along with the very real decisions made by very real plutocrats about who suffers the side effects of pollution generated by the power creation and deficit of potable water. AI is indeed "artificial" in the sense of created by humans, but very much NOT "intelligent" in the sense of being able to make consistent and reasonable decisions based on any conceptual framework except that built in by the creators of the particular AI entity. All AI can be "socialized" to transmit the stance of its creators without revealing that its' outputs are determined by that stance.
I commend the effort, but ultimately, the best way to protect against authoritarian capture of AI is to not elect authoritarians and putting them in charge.
This will ultimately require a change of consciousness and ethics in the electorate and frankly in political and other institutional leadership.
AI is but the latest technology in this period of Technosphere.
https://medium.com/@jylterps/the-ethics-of-the-technosphere-big-data-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-capitalism-and-the-2acadbd2fb9b
on a different level of description, the democratic 'benefits' of AI are most significantly tactics to protect people from the authoritarian abuses of AI. and how we been doin' in that particular game of "humanity in technologyland"? i usta think that the devolution of the species was to reduce ourselves to social insect level of consciousness. but now, having aged thru most of my life, i see that we are trying to mechanize ourselves. at the moment, we're steeling ourselves for another round of a cartoon-like existence (for some interim period) in which big fishes eating smaller fishes, and those not busy gobbling are those who are being gobbled. and if you don't get involved to defend those being gobbled, it may be too late for you. Fight the fascism.