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FEAR OF DEMOCRACY AS FEAR OF TECHNOLOGY

March 13, 2024 by Kenan Malik

This essay, on what lies beneath existential fears of AI, was published in the Observer on 10 March 2024 under the headline “Elon Musk v OpenAI: tech giants are inciting existential fears to evade scrutiny”. In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, HG Wells published a novel about the possibilities of an even greater conflagration. The World Set Free imagines, 30 years before the Manhattan Project, the creation of atomic weapons that allow “a man [to] carry about in a handbag […]

Categories: Culture & Books, Philosophy & Ethics, Science & Technology • Tags: ai, algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence, beatrice webb, chaptgpt, democracy, elon musk, hg wells, openai, sam altman, surveillance

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN EXPLOITATION

November 29, 2023 by Kenan Malik

This essay, on the dangers of AI, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 26 November 2023, under the headline “AI doesn’t cause harm by itself. We should worry about the people who control it“. At times it felt less like Succession than Fawlty Towers, not so much Shakespearean tragedy as Laurel and Hardy farce. OpenAI is the hottest tech company today thanks to the success of its most famous product, the chatbot ChatGPT. It was inevitable that the mayhem surrounding the sacking, and […]

Categories: Science & Technology • Tags: ai, algorithmic bias, chatgpt, elon musk, grady booch, microsoft, openai, sam altman

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