A central assumption here is that AI will continue to function in a unfettered way. Where each user is able to construct a bespoke digital world for themselves based on all the variation access to unlimited information can provide. I don’t think that idea reflects reality. Historically, when it is possible to limit information, authorities will do so in whatever ways forward their agenda, or retards the agenda of an opponent or enemy.
Instead of a bespoke microcosm based on personal values, authorities will simply prevent access to information that is not compliant with the agenda. Trends towards monopolistic capitalism mixed and religious bias will result in a monolithic AI that doesn’t just ignore things (like evolution) but attacks the ideas and people who support them.
We’re already seeing a measurable reduction in original online content and ideas. That’s unlikely to change. The whole thing is speeding towards a single point that authoritarian types have been gagging for as long as literacy has existed. Instead of insular enclaves, I see an entire insular society living in a constant crisis of verisimilitude and outright propaganda where error checking is entirely self referential and wholly circular.
A central assumption here is that AI will continue to function in a unfettered way. Where each user is able to construct a bespoke digital world for themselves based on all the variation access to unlimited information can provide.
I don’t think that idea reflects reality. Historically, when it is possible to limit information, authorities will do so in whatever ways forward their agenda, or retards the agenda of an opponent or enemy.
Instead of a bespoke microcosm based on personal values, authorities will simply prevent access to information that is not compliant with the agenda. Trends towards monopolistic capitalism mixed and religious bias will result in a monolithic AI that doesn’t just ignore things (like evolution) but attacks the ideas and people who support them.
We’re already seeing a measurable reduction in original online content and ideas. That’s unlikely to change. The whole thing is speeding towards a single point that authoritarian types have been gagging for as long as literacy has existed. Instead of insular enclaves, I see an entire insular society living in a constant crisis of verisimilitude and outright propaganda where error checking is entirely self referential and wholly circular.