Welcome to the Machine
AI, Existential Risk, and the Iron Cage of Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049919 |
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| Authors | Jay A Gupta (Mills College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 2023 |
| Issue | 203 |
| Pages | 163-169 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0623203163 |
| OpenAlex | W4385276183 |
| Language | EN |
Recent advances in the functional power of artificial intelligence (AI) have prompted an urgent warning from industry leaders and researchers concerning its “profound risks to society and humanity.”1 Their open letter is admirable not only for its succinct identification of said risks, which include the mass dissemination of misinformation, loss of jobs, and even the possible extinction of our species, but also for its clear normative framing of the problem: “Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?”2
Business · Civilization · Computer security · Environmental ethics · Existentialism · Framing (construction · Humanity · Internet privacy · Misinformation · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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