You might have heard of singularity, sentient AI, uprising of the ai, job losses due to automation. That’s all propaganda that sits under the concept of AI panic.
But how are Microsoft and other LLM companies marketing on AI Panic?
I honestly don’t understand what this graph means. I don’t get what the four sectors mean, how the author decided to distribute companies among the four sectors, or why the four sectors are divided into two equivalent circles.
All I can figure out is the pink side is pure evil and the blue side are our saviors. Given the color scheme, perhaps this is yet another failed gender reveal?
automation never reduces jobs. It fragments them, it reduces their quality, it increases deskilling and replaceability. We are not going to work less as we never worked less thanks to automation. If we want to work less, we need unionization, not machines.
I’ve never heard the singularity referred to as AI panic. It’s usually talked about as a good thing. The point when technology becomes infinitely self-improving. If someone was a promoter of the singularity, that would mean they are trying to achieve/advocate for it not prevent it.
the orgs on the left and adjacent environments use the singularity as yet another way to say “not only we are unleashing a dangerous technology, but it might even become continously self-improving”. It’s a form of magical thinking (the idea of singularity defies many rules of physics and logic) that could be positive magic or negative magic, depending on the kind of propaganda you’re pushing. Since it has no connection with reality, it helps build whatever scenario you desire.
You might have heard of singularity, sentient AI, uprising of the ai, job losses due to automation. That’s all propaganda that sits under the concept of AI panic.
But how are Microsoft and other LLM companies marketing on AI Panic?
I honestly don’t understand what this graph means. I don’t get what the four sectors mean, how the author decided to distribute companies among the four sectors, or why the four sectors are divided into two equivalent circles.
Neither do I. Not a very good diagram.
All I can figure out is the pink side is pure evil and the blue side are our saviors. Given the color scheme, perhaps this is yet another failed gender reveal?
Microsoft bought OpenAI. The AI panic pushed by Sam Altman is sanctioned by Microsoft.
Oh yeah this has never happened. Brb, gonna go tell all my fellow assembly line workers this concept is total propaganda
automation never reduces jobs. It fragments them, it reduces their quality, it increases deskilling and replaceability. We are not going to work less as we never worked less thanks to automation. If we want to work less, we need unionization, not machines.
It’s ridiculous to call ideas that have existed for half a century propaganda just because we’re now approaching those things…
this is not the first AI panic because it’s not the first time people wanted to sell AI. We have been here before.
This paper tracks most of these narratives and what kind of power they serve: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3078224
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I’ve never heard the singularity referred to as AI panic. It’s usually talked about as a good thing. The point when technology becomes infinitely self-improving. If someone was a promoter of the singularity, that would mean they are trying to achieve/advocate for it not prevent it.
the orgs on the left and adjacent environments use the singularity as yet another way to say “not only we are unleashing a dangerous technology, but it might even become continously self-improving”. It’s a form of magical thinking (the idea of singularity defies many rules of physics and logic) that could be positive magic or negative magic, depending on the kind of propaganda you’re pushing. Since it has no connection with reality, it helps build whatever scenario you desire.