COUNTERFEIT PEOPLE. DANIEL DENNETT. (SPECIAL EDITION)
I haven't agreed with much that Dennett promotes - albeit some years ago now since I read his work - but it is interesting to see his take on AI.
The video is a discussion about Dennett's recent essay: The Problem With Counterfeit People.
Great opening paragraph:
Today, for the first time in history, thanks to artificial intelligence, it is possible for anybody to make counterfeit people who can pass for real in many of the new digital environments we have created. These counterfeit people are the most dangerous artifacts in human history, capable of destroying not just economies but human freedom itself.
Discuss.
This is why corporations demanded personhood from the 19th century.
A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections
personhood for artificial constructs, slavery for human units.
Episode 163: Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy)
https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/163/connor-leahy-will-ai-destroy-civilization-in-the-near-future
podcast and (mercifully) transcript.
so, its an optimisation problem in that it is not us that are being optimised.
and that is the deep problem of optimisation - need some feedback loops that have counter-algos at certain points. But when?
The essay is more coherent and mercifully shorter than the video.
But I do wonder whether an inarticulate philosopher is more than just a psychological issue.