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The task he’d hoped to finish was now looking even more stubbornly intractable than when he’d begun, and if he didn’t get home before eleven he’d have no chance to do anything but fall into bed. He needed to spend an hour with a book, a game, or a TV show, just to lay down a clear memory that separated each day from the next,
Sleep and the Soul
Greg Egan
There is something we haven’t discussed when it comes to trust: power. Sometimes we have no choice but to trust someone or something because they are powerful. We are forced to trust the local police, because they’re the only law enforcement authority in town. We are forced to trust some corporations, because there aren’t viable alternatives. To be more precise, we have no choice but to entrust ourselves to them. We will be in this same position with AI. We will have no choice but to entrust ourselves to their decision-making.
AI and Trust
Schneier on Security
On the distributed cognition account, we can already see a more dynamic picture emerging about the concerns of generative AI producing false outputs if we take seriously the idea that our cognitive processes are deeply entangled with the cognitive and affective tools that we use.
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