Re:Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society
by tablespoon on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @04:02PM
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> My perspective is that our technological advancement has well outpaced our ability to adapt to the changes or bring our legal and social tools effectively to bear on them.
> A decade or two of stagnation would be frustrating for those in the field but probably overall a good thing. Plus I don't think this would affect research at all so not even.
I agree. And frankly, technological "progress" for its own sake reeks of technopoly [1]. Technology should serve society, not the other way around.
> Postman defines technopoly as a "totalitarian technocracy", which demands the "submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology".
> A decade or two of stagnation would be frustrating for those in the field but probably overall a good thing. Plus I don't think this would affect research at all so not even.
I agree. And frankly, technological "progress" for its own sake reeks of technopoly [1]. Technology should serve society, not the other way around.
[1] A term coined in a very good book by Neil Postman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly:
> Postman defines technopoly as a "totalitarian technocracy", which demands the "submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology".