ARTIFICIAL INSANITY UPDATE: Machines Learning and Democracies Burning

“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” Eliezer Yudkowsky

“AI is not revolutionary. It is a way of portraying the control of powerful people over society’s material resources as rational, a way to reframe social and economic hierarchy as progress.” R.H. Lossin & Jason Resnikoff

“Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?” Steve Polyak

“People worry that computers will get too smart and will take over the world. But the real problem is that they are too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.” Pedro Domingos

AI is a tool and a weapon unlike any other that human beings have developed; it will almost certainly allow the already powerful to consolidate their power further.” Yuval Noah Harari

“We all live in an operating system set up by the accelerating triad of war, capitalism and emergent artificial intelligence.” Steve Goodman

“Two men at Google who do not enjoy the legitimacy of the vote, democratic oversight, or the demands of shareholder governance exercise control over the organization and presentation of the world’s information. One man at Facebook who does not enjoy the legitimacy of the vote, democratic oversight, or the demands of shareholder governance exercises control over an increasingly universal means of social connection…