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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

Human estimation can no longer touch her. She’s free now to experiment. To discover anything.

The Overstory

Richard Powers

Corporations flooding the zone with propaganda about the inevitability of superhuman intelligence or the current capacity of their products to "think" are, ultimately, part of a long lineage of technologies concerned with cultivating social control.

AI, Slavery, Surveillance, and Capitalism

Substack

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