Views on tech
Views on tech
Hi all!
I’m new here. I represent a little movement out of Africa, but I am myself Scandinavian.
Currently I’m working on a video exploring the role of technology in shaping a radically different society aligned much more broadly with solarpunk ideas. I’m specifically interested in how blockchain, DAOs and AI could potentially revolutionize the future of consensus making, but I’m also acutely aware that this is a polarizing issue. What are your views on this?
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None of those things are remotely associated with any future I wish to exist in.
Machine learning has actual use cases, protein folding/alphafold or automated research/experimenting. But "AI" as the hype machine behind natural language processing is not the future of machine learning.
If anything, it will be a driving force behind massive loss of jobs and further entrenching wealth disparity.
I largely agree, but I also think that each of those technologies are merely tools, and what truly matters is the ideals in the service of which we deploy any tools we build. The path our global society is currently on leads straight to dystopia, and I don’t want to live there either.
You might like a book I'm reading rn that validates and discusses your fears in depth: This chapter ('Information Technology and Democracy: a Widening Gulf') is particularly relevant.