AI will in time equal Social Control – and not BY AI but THROUGH AI
What goes unsaid, far as I’ve seen…. Perhaps it sounds too blunt, too alarmist: The more dependent we become on AI, the more vulnerable we become to social control systems set up by those who do the initial programming and administrative monitoring of AI. AI will be giving *us* prompts.
There’ll be an illusory notion shared by the general public that AI will be a system that “knows better”; it’ll be viewed (unthinkingingly but definitely) as a kind of electronic Oz Wizard/Einsteinian polymath digital genius who knows all. But in fact it will be a device for imprinting the agenda of the Musks of the world and their neofascist cronies. AI will in time equal oppressive Social Control – and not BY AI but THROUGH AI. The key to their social control will be the carefully fashioned illusion that AI is independent; that its supposedly all-comprehending mind will give us directions, promptings, regimens, through its own initiative alone. But the outcomes, the specific regimen, will derive from a small, unspeakably wealthy elite cadre of human beings who will not care in the slightest about the rest of us.
We’ll come into essentially living in Orwell’s 1984 from a different angle.
A bunion had crushed the second toe and rather than go through the pain and time off my feet to have it reconstructed I opted to have it removed. We asked for it to take it home, permission was given, and it’s been buried in the yard. All this is true. Micky’s idea. There will be photos. She put a Buddha statuette over it and I wrote this: