Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
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Keith Fitzgerald
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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We're still trying to figure out how will young People actually learn going thru without trying to use ChatGPT to do it for them. 🤦🏻♀️ & haven't even started the discussion about passing laws to protect People from abusive and predatory practices by private companies or cyber criminals.
Cyclops had one eye. Current version to have infinite eyes.
I am not going to sit around and twiddle my thumbs while I wait my turn to be targeted.
Also, Meredith Whittaker has the best hair.
Fascism
AI agents are fundamentally trending us not towards democratic processes but towards fascist ones and there is NO “solution” to that. It is what it is
A highly surveilled society is a highly policed society, and a highly policed society is an androidized society. The goal is not to use AI to create androids. It's to use AI to turn us into human androids.
They’re OK with us being voluntarily submissive, but they also have no problems using AI to have us kill ourselves (promoting disinfo and hate) and/or kill us on their behalf (building fully “autonomous” bombers).
They simply don’t care.
We are working more hours for money that buys us less while more and more products move to subscription or micro purchase based models. AI seems like a solution, but it isn't.
...billionaire and Uber lord of the data mining giant Palantir, arguing that the Antichrist we really need to fear - without a hint of whimsy - is a One World Green Greta Thunberg or some such.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV7YgnPUxcU
I've lived many years w/those things. It isn't my age that informs my analysis, but my experience: we become less as we remove ourselves from decision-making & daily tasks in our lives
& never use phones when out w/friends. jesus christ
So there’s no current incentive for them to do the right thing.
Why do you think these companies (and their leaders) tend to promote the most corrupt politicians?
https://x.com/mer__edith/status/1673336357341605891
(Perplexed by gangster as a compliment, but that’s likely cause I’m oald)
I'd guess most anyone using it was roughly millennial
Gs are the people who still speak truth.
(This is how wealth ALWAYS influences whatever it touches, btw)
My 9yo niece wouldn't have a clue.
There needs to be a federal AI ethics board on this.*ESPECIALLY* with agentic AI.
#ai
automated nanomanagement is the goal
The only difference here is the Chinese automate it.
I can make my own damn appointments myself, tyvm.
But can you prove your conspiracy theory?
Not having to think is ostensibly the feature of this current wave of bullshit.
AI will make you dumb, inattentive, situationally unaware, and….. you will be surveilled.
Agents aren't going to be little bots that live on your digital device and seek out what's best for you on the internet like we imagined in the 90s.
They will be extensions of social media everything apps.
Back in the 80s and 90s, software agents were imagined as operating with the end-users best interests in mind, not marketing extensions.