We take apart what it's already time to talk about: how society, technology and our picture of reality are shifting.
We picture dangerous AI as a machine seizing servers. But persuading is cheaper than forcing, and cheaper still is making the decisions people handed over themselves.
ReadAI cannot hide: megawatts, chips and money are all visible. The real scenario is worse and duller: a system nobody switches off because everything depends on it, built not by an escaped AI but by the company that owns it. The one thing such a system cannot route around is the dumbest weapon in human hands.
ReadNot being able to repeat the AI's work without the AI is not degradation: that is how any division of labour works. Degradation begins where a person hands the machine not the execution but the goal, the criteria of correctness and the stop button.
ReadThe responsible person is needed not as a wallet and not as a sacrifice after the accident, but as the point of control over the power handed to the system. The bill belongs to the organisation that chose the technology and profits from it.
ReadWe judge the same answer differently depending on how much effort we think it took and who helped formulate it.
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