> The culture of AI is imperialist and seeks to expand the kingdom of the machine. The AI
community is well organized and well funded, and its culture fits its dreams: it has high
priests, its greedy businessmen, its canny politicians. The U.S. Department of Defense
is behind it all the way. And like the communists of old, AI scientists believe in their
revolution; the old myths of tragic hubris don’t trouble them at all.
-- Tony Solomonides and Les Levidow (1985, pp. 13–14)
DyslexicAtheist•2mo ago
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> The culture of AI is imperialist and seeks to expand the kingdom of the machine. The AI community is well organized and well funded, and its culture fits its dreams: it has high priests, its greedy businessmen, its canny politicians. The U.S. Department of Defense is behind it all the way. And like the communists of old, AI scientists believe in their revolution; the old myths of tragic hubris don’t trouble them at all.