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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
Environmental action must never be allowed to become a figleaf for other forms of oppression. The spectacle of the Israeli Defense Forces creating grated passages through the apartheid wall to permit the passage of small mammals while continuing to degrade, suffocate and cut short Palestinian lives only serves to underscore the racism and inhumanity of such barriers, and the regimes which install them.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
The plant’s, the planet’s, brain.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
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