We built machines to finish our sentences. Now they are helping us finish the world.
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
We are not outside the world we are trying to understand. We are (all) implicated in its disorders, participants in its reproduction, and responsible for what happens next.
Communication systems can make an interpretation familiar before it has been examined, significant before it has been understood, and consequential before anyone establishes whether it is true.
The AI business model converts new capabilities into dependencies, then turns the resulting risks, maintenance burdens and failures into reasons for further investment.
A rigged game constrains probabilities; it does not determine every outcome.
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Technocracy: Addicted to Risk
We have constructed a civilisation in which recognising existential risk has become another reason to continue producing it.
Conflict builds technology, technology reorganises conflict, and somewhere inside the loop every new problem becomes someone’s next investment opportunity.
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What Does Education Do?
Education stabilises knowledge long enough to transmit it, even as the machinery through which knowledge is produced and interpreted accelerates the movement of the epistemic attractor itself.
A civilisation builds systems to solve its problems, then discovers that the systems have become the problems, while its dependence upon them has made their continuity deeply problematic.
The manosphere promises strength and control, yet its communities, platforms and markets are structurally and commercially dependent on reproducing the insecurities they claim to resolve.
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AI: When the Bubble Bursts
AI is building the dependencies that make its own expansion increasingly necessary.
The technological system cannot perceive its full costs because that blindness is one of the conditions of its success.
