Ep. 8: Glen Weyl, Ph.D: Alternatives to Technocracy & the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence
The Moral Imagination
Is There a Technocracy Behind Artificial Intelligence?
I think there are two very deep but somewhat distinct thoughts in what you said. One is that the ideology of AI is all about hiding the human role and creating it, even the technologists who created it. It's thought, oh, no, the computer just did it, right? So that both hides the technologists behind it, even, but certainly anyone other than the technologist. At the same time, as you point out, there is nothing created without human work. It's just meaningless to think of this stuff's not being created by humans. When you say AI, what you actually mean is that all the design authority and all the agency in setting up the systems is allocated
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