We take apart what it's already time to talk about: how society, technology and our picture of reality are shifting.
It does, but not everywhere and not for everything. A cartoon with a cappuccino for a head the viewer happily accepts from a neural network. News and product recommendations are harder. The market really does not pay for hours of work, but that does not mean it is indifferent to process. It pays for the consequences of process: a repeatable result, a truthful image, someone answerable when things break, and the provenance of a thing. And the line where 'nobody cares' begins is often drawn not by the reader but by the owner of the channel through which the content reaches them.
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.
ReadWe 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.
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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