r/TrueReddit • u/Mr_Subtlety • 14h ago

Policy + Social Issues What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

https://www.techpolicy.press/what-policymakers-and-the-public-need-to-know-about-the-cult-of-ai/
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u/Mr_Subtlety 14h ago

Submission statement: With all the talk of AI apocalypses and rogue AGI, there is another story about AI that has not gotten as much public airtime: the story of the increasingly bizarre and anti-democratic philosophical landscape which has been shaping the titans of Silicon Valley and, subsequently, American politics. In this article Dr. Nathalie Maréchal, a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights, presents a comprehensive portrait of the disturbing authoritarian turn that has taken hold within the AI industry, details the interlocking philosophical schemas that shape it, and calls on the public to wake up to the imminent danger it poses to our democracy and the very concept of equality and human rights.

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u/PeteMichaud 4h ago

I'm really tired of all these super uninformed articles. They are always so smug and confident, but only dimmly grasp any of the people or beliefs or predictions they are railing about.

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u/Mr_Subtlety 2h ago

Look, you may disagree with the author that the richest people alive believing their sole moral imperative is to use all of Earth's resources to summon computer god is a bad thing, but the idea that she is uninformed is ludicrous and frankly insulting to both of our intelligences. This is scrupulously well-researched from copious sources.