Artifice and Intelligence

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AI Software vs Capitalism

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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

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Our lack of self-consciousness in using, or consuming, language that takes machine intelligence for granted is not something that we have co—evolved in response to actual advances in computational sophistication of the kind that Turing. and others. anticipated. Rather it is something to which we have been compelled in large part through the marketing campaigns, and market control, of tech companies

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comparing the tech industry’s capture of computer science research to the US. military's commandeering of scientific research and research institutions during the Cold War.

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Instead of pursuing the limits of computers' potential for simulated humanity, the hawkers of “AI" are pursuing the limits of human beings' potential to be reduced to their calculability.

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(1) the public does not know what “AI” is and (2) the public assumes that Al is smarter than they are.

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The threat of lost agency is real, but not because computers are yet capable of anything similar to, let alone superior to, human intelligence. The threat is real because the satisfaction of corporate greed, and the perfection of political control, requires people to lay aside the aspiration to know what their own minds can do.

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For us today, living in such a society, the question of what it means for human beings to think is a liberatory question. Protecting the possibility for people to ask that question, alone and together, is part of what we at the Privacy Center believe privacy is for.

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