She’s not just saying that the wealthy are trying to seize control — she also discusses how they’re leveraging the rhetoric of inevitable AI in order to build the foundations for future control. Significantly, she identifies this attempt as being driven by anxiety that the wealthy feel about their future control, and discusses strategies for resisting that.
What she’s saying is far from obvious; I’ve seen so many anti-AI, anti-capitalist folk unwittingly perpetuating the rhetorical agenda of the wealthy by accepting the notion that a society ran by super advanced AI is inevitable.
Call bullshit on what, sorry? I’m not clear on whether you’re calling bullshit on the professor in the article, or the wealthy assholes who the professor is critiquing
Thanks, Professor Obvious
She’s not just saying that the wealthy are trying to seize control — she also discusses how they’re leveraging the rhetoric of inevitable AI in order to build the foundations for future control. Significantly, she identifies this attempt as being driven by anxiety that the wealthy feel about their future control, and discusses strategies for resisting that.
What she’s saying is far from obvious; I’ve seen so many anti-AI, anti-capitalist folk unwittingly perpetuating the rhetorical agenda of the wealthy by accepting the notion that a society ran by super advanced AI is inevitable.
Yeah I call bullshit on that.
Automation is inevitable, doesn’t mean decision making will be.
Having fully automated factory that churns out 100 cars a day is not dystopian if you can have people able to configure that number.
The dystopian part is having only a few with “admin access”.
Call bullshit on what, sorry? I’m not clear on whether you’re calling bullshit on the professor in the article, or the wealthy assholes who the professor is critiquing
Dystopian is when they finish the fully automated kill bots that kill you if you don’t get to work on time.
The wealthy feel anxiety about their future control? Why would they need to feel that?
Because they ran out of things to distract the masses, plus they need the plebs in order to maintain their little fiefdoms.