When it comes to “artificial intelligence,” there are so many hopes and fears that touch on the most fundamental questions of existence, consciousness, freewill, and what type of society we are creating.
A 2023 Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 65% of Americans express concern about AI’s direction. The truth is that an Artificial Intelligence system has been operating for hundreds, if not thousands of years; it’s called the Economy. And it’s not your friend. It’s programmed to extract and centralize wealth at all costs. Its hardware is you and I and all humans living under its dominion. Its software is the bureaucracy and impersonal systems that govern our interactions.