Machines need not be intelligent or sinisterly designed to enslave us
Evidence
Similarly with Alexa and other such devices. It matters not one iota that they are mindless appendages of a data-crunching network that only simulates intelligence. Nor that their creators might have been motivated by curiosity and profit-seeking, rather than some fiendish plan to subjugate humanity. What matters is that they exercise unimaginable power over what we do – on behalf of a tiny band of flesh-and-blood humans. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 277
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines a ‘singularity’ in a simpler sense: the moment an invention becomes independent of and more powerful than its creators.
- XREF: connects to: Machine mastery perpetuates rather than ends enslavement — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 635; Weapons acceleration can abolish human political decision in favor of automation — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 17; The danger of military robots is their incapacity to disobey — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 690 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Machine mastery perpetuates rather than ends enslavement
#expands(0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 635 - Weapons acceleration can abolish human political decision in favor of automation
#expands(0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 17 - The danger of military robots is their incapacity to disobey
#exemplifies(0.78) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 690 - Technological determinism falsely credits tools alone with causing social change
#qualifies(0.72) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 59