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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 10:24:37 UTC Aral Balkan

   Machines aren’t taking over.
   Corporations are taking over.

   Worry about the right thing.

   #corporatocracy #ai

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   • Quincy 💉₃ (quincy@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 10:24:39 UTC Quincy 💉₃

     in reply to

     • Charlie Stross

     @aral Aren't corporations machines too? 😁
     (I remember @cstross making that argument in a keynote (IIRC))

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   • Mark Dominus (mjd@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 11:33:44 UTC Mark Dominus

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     @aral “Capitalism is the machine that will do whatever it takes to prevent us from turning it off.” (Ted Chiang, https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey)

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 11:33:51 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow's linkblog
     • Quincy 💉₃
     • Charlie Stross

     @quincy Yes, @cstross , @pluralistic and Ted Chiang have all referred to corporations as a form of slow AI that executes on a substrate of humans and paperwork. As far as I remember seeing, they each credit the other two with coming up with the analogy. 😊

     @aral

   • Jordan Biserkov (jbiserkov@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 02:11:58 UTC Jordan Biserkov

     in reply to

     @aral

     “I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too. Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us. And technology and capitalism have been so closely intertwined that it’s hard to distinguish the two.”

     -- Ted Chiang

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