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AI is killing choice & chance - which means changing what it means to be human

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https://localnewsmatters.org/2021/02/26/...-be-human/

EXCERPTS: . . . AI is no different. While the term AI conjures up anxieties about killer robots, unemployment or a massive surveillance state, there are other, deeper implications. As AI increasingly shapes the human experience, how does this change what it means to be human? Central to the problem is a person’s capacity to make choices, particularly judgments that have moral implications.
Taking over our lives?

[...] Aristotle argued that the capacity for making practical judgments depends on regularly making them - on habit and practice. We see the emergence of machines as substitute judges in a variety of workaday contexts as a potential threat to people learning how to effectively exercise judgment themselves.

In the workplace, managers routinely make decisions about whom to hire or fire, which loan to approve and where to send police officers, to name a few. These are areas where algorithmic prescription is replacing human judgment, and so people who might have had the chance to develop practical judgment in these areas no longer will.

Recommendation engines, which are increasingly prevalent intermediaries in people’s consumption of culture, may serve to constrain choice and minimize serendipity. By presenting consumers with algorithmically curated choices of what to watch, read, stream and visit next, companies are replacing human taste with machine taste. In one sense, this is helpful. After all, the machines can survey a wider range of choices than any individual is likely to have the time or energy to do on her own.

At the same time, though, this curation is optimizing for what people are likely to prefer based on what they’ve preferred in the past. We think there is some risk that people’s options will be constrained by their pasts in a new and unanticipated way - a generalization of the “echo chamber” people are already seeing in social media.

The advent of potent predictive technologies seems likely to affect basic political institutions, too. The idea of human rights, for example, is grounded in the insight that human beings are majestic, unpredictable, self-governing agents whose freedoms must be guaranteed by the state. If humanity - or at least its decision-making - becomes more predictable, will political institutions continue to protect human rights in the same way? (MORE - details)
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Zinjanthropos Offline
I was looking at this mining company to invest in only because they had hired a company that used AI to analyze their claim using algorithms as to where the best area to dig/drill would be. Waiting for results. Stock was cheap so I grabbed some on a hunch as a testament to technology, so time will tell.

Well.....What kind of furor will there be when AI is asked whether god exists or which religion is most apt to be correct? Let’s say AI rates one religion over the other or professes God’s non-existence or for atheists god’s existence. Can AI conquer belief or sway non believers? There is a potential loss of power over the masses should people trust AI explicitly or a predominant religion could make AI a tool of the devil and forbid its use. I’d love to be there when it happens, one way or another.
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Syne Offline
(Feb 27, 2021 07:48 AM)C C Wrote: Recommendation engines, which are increasingly prevalent intermediaries in people’s consumption of culture, may serve to constrain choice and minimize serendipity. By presenting consumers with algorithmically curated choices of what to watch, read, stream and visit next, companies are replacing human taste with machine taste. In one sense, this is helpful. After all, the machines can survey a wider range of choices than any individual is likely to have the time or energy to do on her own.

At the same time, though, this curation is optimizing for what people are likely to prefer based on what they’ve preferred in the past. We think there is some risk that people’s options will be constrained by their pasts in a new and unanticipated way - a generalization of the “echo chamber” people are already seeing in social media.

Luckily, conservatives, Republicans, and theists will be immune to this sort of manipulation for much longer than those on the left, as the curating is typically designed by leftists to further insulate their own against any inconvenient facts. I have to either use DuckDuckGo or search for a specific conservative source to find anything but the lamestream, legacy media. Which means I couldn't be in an echo chamber, even if I tried. Now, if you seriously curate your own social media, you might be able to create your own conservative bubble, but everywhere you go online you're still being fed leftist narratives. So you can't help but be somewhat aware of what the other side genuinely thinks and is imbibing.
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