
To Be or Not to Be Hacked | Audrey Tang and Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation With Puja Ohlhaver
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Algorithms Taking Over Democracies
In the long run algorithms are taking over not in a stance fiction way of the robots rebelling and trying to kill us but of algorithm actually Gathering more and more power to themselves. So even if you still had a human president or a human prime minister Actually all the important decisions Or the being taken by an algorithm that the prime minister cannot even understand. This is increasingly happening and the funny thing is the dictatorships are actually far more vulnerable To this kind of algorithmic takeover If you think about say the prc I often think about maybe if I had time to write a science fiction Novel or a science fiction movie about algorithms taking over my favorite setting will actually be let's say the communist party Of
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