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What AI fears the most
GPT-3 writes on the future of artificial intelligence
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We most frequently talk about what concerns us the most. But what would AI be most concerned about when thinking of its future? What technology wants is a perplexing question ever since it has been asked directly by Kevin Kelly. Yet even before him, many have pondered over the answer to this question, that only the most self-absorbed species could ask of their imperfect creation.
But is technology truly our creation? What is the essence of technology? How does it affect our notions of nature and freedom? Technology is now everywhere, but how does that affect our humanity? (How does that make you feel?)
“Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly pay homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.” — Martin Heidegger: Question Concerning Technology
Let’s leave those questions aside for the moment. (Unless you are burning time looking for typos in my old MA thesis).
