“I see current tech discourses laced with all sorts of strange religious and quasi-religious supplements—even beyond Peter Thiel and his fixation on the Antichrist.”
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“With our sharp turn towards the robotic, we are slowly abandoning the human. We are losing the pleasure of making mistakes and the ability to hear the poetry that thrums through even the most ordinary of days.”
“The question now becomes, how does the advent of AI help us to make the transition from capitalism to democracy by means of socialism, in theory and practice? That is, how does AI make the transition both possible and necessary?”
“We often think of AI as ethereal spirits in code that haunt data centers and traverse the cloud, like the chatbots quietly surveilling us as they dutifully respond to our queries… But these car-shaped robots are physical agents of artificial intelligence.”
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On AI’s relentless push for meaning.
“Being human means being authentically moved in your own heart in mysterious ways by revelations that don’t originate from aggregated data about other people collected by other people. Only you can know what it feels like for you to read Hamlet, see a solar eclipse, or hear your child’s heartbeat.”
“The battlefield incubator has spawned a generation of drones that are terrifyingly fast, cheap, and legion… but it is becoming more and more likely that one outfitted with artificial intelligence has already targeted and killed a human on its own.”
