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If nothing means anything and nothing follows from anything else, then, as Hannah Arendt warned, everything is possible. Reality is putty to be shaped and molded at will.
As the ideology behind this bait-and-switch leaks into the wider culture, it slowly corrodes our own self-understanding. If you try to point out, in a large lecture or online forum on AI, that ChatGPT does not experience and cannot think about the things that correspond to the words and sentences it produces — that it is only a mathematical generator of expected language patterns — chances are that someone will respond, in a completely serious manner: “But so are we.”
The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
Shannon Vallor
It’s important to refer to the actual technology because one of the themes of this text is that political impacts arise from resonances between concrete technical characteristics and the surrounding social and political conditions.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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