{"id":13645,"date":"2024-03-10T07:37:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T06:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/elon-musk-v-openai-tech-giants-are-inciting-existential-fears-to-evade-scrutiny-kenan-malik\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T07:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T06:37:19","slug":"elon-musk-v-openai-tech-giants-are-inciting-existential-fears-to-evade-scrutiny-kenan-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/elon-musk-v-openai-tech-giants-are-inciting-existential-fears-to-evade-scrutiny-kenan-malik\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk v OpenAI: tech giants are inciting existential fears to evade scrutiny | Kenan Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moguls extol the fruits of artificial intelligence, but seek to hide its science from public view<\/p>\n

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, HG Wells published a novel about the possibilities of an even greater conflagration. The World Set Free<\/em><\/a> imagines, 30 years before the Manhattan Project, the creation of atomic weapons that allow \u201ca man [to] carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city\u201d. Global war breaks out, leading to an atomic apocalypse. It takes the \u201cestablishment of a world government\u201d to bring about peace.<\/p>\n

What concerned Wells was not simply the perils of a new technology, it was also the dangers of democracy. Wells\u2019 world government was not created through democratic will but imposed as a benign dictatorship. \u201cThe governed will show their consent by silence,\u201d England\u2019s King Egbert menacingly remarks. For Wells, the \u201ccommon man\u201d was \u201ca violent fool in social and public affairs<\/a>\u201d. Only an educated, scientifically minded elite could \u201csave democracy from itself\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nMoguls extol the fruits of artificial intelligence, but seek to hide its science from public view
\nIn 1914, on the eve of the First World War, HG Wells published a novel about the possibilities of an even greater conflagration. The World Set Free imagines, 30 years before the Manhattan Project, the creation of atomic weapons that allow \u201ca man [to] carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city\u201d. Global war breaks out, leading to an atomic apocalypse. It takes the \u201cestablishment of a world government\u201d to bring about peace.
\nWhat concerned Wells was not simply the perils of a new technology, it was also the dangers of democracy. Wells\u2019 world government was not created through democratic will but imposed as a benign dictatorship. \u201cThe governed will show their consent by silence,\u201d England\u2019s King Egbert menacingly remarks. For Wells, the \u201ccommon man\u201d was \u201ca violent fool in social and public affairs\u201d. Only an educated, scientifically minded elite could \u201csave democracy from itself\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moguls extol the fruits of artificial intelligence, but seek to hide its science from public view In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, HG Wells published a novel about the possibilities of an even greater conflagration. The World Set Free imagines, 30 years before the Manhattan Project, the creation of atomic weapons …<\/p>\n

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