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Ep. 8: Glen Weyl, Ph.D: Alternatives to Technocracy & the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence

The Moral Imagination

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The Problem of Technocracy

Benedict XVI: When you politicize religions, the result is unbelief. And what it ends up doing is turning religion into an ideology instead of a philosophical reverence for being. The real threat today is that these artificial intelligence approaches decide that they have characterized all of what humanity is and can just measure using whatever data. That is really the fundamental fear.

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