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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

396 points · 457 comments · nmeagent

  1. ilaksh · · focus · HN ↗
    I am very pro-AI (although I do think we need to have a culture of caution) but this is another red-alert for democracy. People should be terrified if the president is able to make you into a state enemy just because you said you are against some technology.
    1. Razengan · · focus · HN ↗
      I'm pro-AI but very anti-authoritarian. Guess I'm going to the gulag or becoming a meat battery for the Matrix
      1. selfhoster1312 · · focus · HN ↗
        Interesting! I would personally argue that AI as a political project is precisely very authoritarian. I recommend reading Al Khatib&#x27;s definition to get an unorthodox perspective on the matter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ali-alkhatib.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;defining-ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ali-alkhatib.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;defining-ai
        1. Razengan · · focus · HN ↗
          &gt; AI as a political project is precisely very authoritarian.

          It can also level the playing field.

          Every human SHOULD have access to all human knowledge at their fingertips, and a personal assistant to help them navigate through it.

          1. scarecrowbob · · focus · HN ↗
            &quot;Every human SHOULD have access to all human knowledge at their fingertips, and a personal assistant to help them navigate through it.&quot;

            I agree.

            I absolutely think that is not what all this compute power is for.

            I do believe that all this statistical inference and generation, alongside the massive data collection apparatus we have built, is designed explicitly to completely lock down the possible actions for any person targeted by the folks who own these systems, and these systems aren&#x27;t owned by &quot;every human&quot;.

            Quite the contrary- historically the folks who own those systems are pretty, uh, specific about what they man by &quot;human&quot;. Those folks are so capricious about that concept of human they can&#x27;t believe brown folks are human while their kids suspect the computers might be human.

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