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First, I explore how AI systems function as unreliable cognitive artefacts, introducing distortions into distributed processes of remembering, planning, or reasoning. Here, false beliefs, inaccurate memories, and distorted narratives emerge as AI-produced errors become embedded within the distributed cognitive processes themselves. While the error is introduced by the AI, the 'hallucination', on this view, is attributed not to the AI but to the distributed cognitive process that spans the human-AI interaction.
The crisis has shifted away from being confined to the space of the body under the medical gaze, now the doctor must be practitioner, judge, and social manager. This lingers today in the DSM-V’s definition of abnormality: “maladaptive behavior, personal distress, statistical rarity, and violation of social norms.” As Julian Heron notes, “the threat presented by discordant bodies organizes the very fiction of a unified society.”
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
Much of our experience with AI systems makes their centralized and antidemocratic nature plain: They are used to discriminate among people for benefits distribution, job searches and employee evaluation, credit and housing applications, medical triage, insurance claims, predictive policing, judicial sentencing, facial recognition, price discrimination, and on and on. You find AI anywhere a large institution can make individuals feel as though their existence has been reduced to their data.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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