{"id":21339,"date":"2025-12-26T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/our-king-priest-and-feudal-lord-how-ai-is-taking-us-back-to-the-dark-ages-joseph-de-weck\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:37:15","slug":"our-king-priest-and-feudal-lord-how-ai-is-taking-us-back-to-the-dark-ages-joseph-de-weck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/our-king-priest-and-feudal-lord-how-ai-is-taking-us-back-to-the-dark-ages-joseph-de-weck\/","title":{"rendered":"Our king, priest and feudal lord \u2013 how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Enlightenment, we\u2019ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that<\/p>\n<p>This summer, I found myself battling through traffic in the sweltering streets of Marseille. At a crossing, my friend in the passenger seat told me to turn right toward a spot known for its fish soup. But the navigation app Waze instructed us to go straight. Tired, and with the Renault feeling like a sauna on wheels, I followed Waze\u2019s advice. Moments later, we were stuck at a construction site.<\/p>\n<p>A trivial moment, maybe. But one that captures perhaps the defining question of our era, in which technology touches nearly every aspect of our lives: who do we trust more \u2013 other human beings and our own instincts, or the machine?<\/p>\n<p>Joseph de Weck is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/dec\/26\/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c286aefbf8fbc284b63efe447bf403ee219674d4\/1669_2166_1874_1499\/master\/1874.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d450c59ea858fa1165fcb5d6f29d9d51\" title=\"Our king, priest and feudal lord \u2013 how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck\" \/>Since the Enlightenment, we\u2019ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that<br \/>\nThis summer, I found myself battling through traffic in the sweltering streets of Marseille. At a crossing, my friend in the passenger seat told me to turn right toward a spot known for its fish soup. But the navigation app Waze instructed us to go straight. Tired, and with the Renault feeling like a sauna on wheels, I followed Waze\u2019s advice. Moments later, we were stuck at a construction site.<br \/>\nA trivial moment, maybe. But one that captures perhaps the defining question of our era, in which technology touches nearly every aspect of our lives: who do we trust more \u2013 other human beings and our own instincts, or the machine?<br \/>\nJoseph de Weck is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Enlightenment, we\u2019ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that This summer, I found myself battling through traffic in the sweltering streets of Marseille. At a crossing, my friend in the passenger seat told me to turn right toward a spot known for its fish soup. But &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/our-king-priest-and-feudal-lord-how-ai-is-taking-us-back-to-the-dark-ages-joseph-de-weck\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our king, priest and feudal lord \u2013 how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}