Технологийн салбарын нөлөө бүхий элитүүд хиймэл оюун ухааныг ашиглан ардчилсан нийгмийн бүтцийг өөрчилж, хүний бие даасан байдлыг үгүйсгэж болзошгүйг судлаачид анхааруулж байна.
Харвардын их сургуулийн түүхч Жилл Лепоре “Hard Fork” подкастад өгсөн ярилцлагадаа үндэсний болон ардчилсан төрийн тогтолцоог “хиймэл төр”-өөр солих эрсдэл нүүрлэснийг онцолжээ. Энэхүү шинэ дэг журамд засаглалыг ард иргэдийн хүсэл зоригоор бус, корпорацын эзэмшлийн машин механизм, алгоритмаар удирдуулах аюултай юм. Тэрээр энэ үзэгдлийг олон нийтийн амьдралыг сегментчилж, тусгаарлан, хүнлэг чанарыг устгах “хүмүүсийг үйлдвэржүүлэн фермд өсгөх” үйл явц хэмээн тодорхойлсон байна.
Хиймэл оюун ухааны технологи нь сонгуулийн санал хураалтаас эхлээд хууль тогтоомж боловсруулах, тандалт хийх зэрэг төрийн бүхий л үйл ажиллагаанд нэвтэрч, шийдвэр гаргах эрх мэдлийг улам бүр төвлөрүүлж байна. Жилл Лепорегийн үзэж буйгаар, технологийн салбарын удирдлагууд хиймэл оюун ухааны хөгжлийг зайлшгүй гэж сурталчлах замаар зохицуулалтыг сулруулж, ардчиллын суурь зарчмуудыг ганхуулж байгаа аж.
Хүмүүс өдөр тутмын асуудлаа шийдвэрлэхдээ бодит хүмүүстэй харилцахаа больж, чатбот зэрэг хиймэл оюун ухаанд найддаг болсон нь энэхүү “хиймэл төр”-ийн эхлэл юм. Технологийн компаниуд дижитал харилцаа холбооны дэд бүтцийг хянаснаар нийгмийн мэдээлэл болон сонголт хийх үйл явцыг бүрэн зуучлах болсон нь иргэний нийгмийн ирээдүйд томоохон сорилт болж байна.
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We’re racing towards a future where AI enables the “factory farming of humans,” a Harvard professor warns — if tech elites get their way, at least.
In a new episode of The New York Time’s “Hard Fork” podcast, the historian Jill Lepore discusses her idea of an “artificial state” that’s supplanting the traditional nation state, and particular constitutional democracy, with one that erases human autonomy.
In this emerging world order, government is conducted “not by the consent of people but by machines that are making decisions,” she explained on the podcast. And those machines, of course, are owned by corporations.
We aren’t living in the artificial state quite yet, Lepore stresses, but it’s something that’s being built and realized around us. And crucially, it’s also a fantasy held by certain influential elites who believe their power should supersede the actual government and the voters who decide how it’s run.
“The rhetoric that comes out of this particular historical moment is really about the evanescence of modern liberal democracy, constitutional democracy,” she said. The elites pushing this rhetoric aren’t “interested in what the people want,” she added. “Because actually, what the people want is not to have AI and not to have data centers. So that’s the crisis.”
Lepore explores the idea in depth in her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State.” She was inspired by a simple question: in our current world where you’re forced to talk to an AI to get answers, ranging from when you call in to ask about an appointment or talk to a company’s support chatbot on its website, “who decided this is a way we should be living?”
The artificial state is a sort of backsliding, in which more and more of the state’s functions are now being replaced by corporations that own and control our digital communications infrastructure. How we get our news, and information on elections and who to vote for, is all being mediated by these powerful groups — through technologies like the TV and radio, once, and now social media being the increasingly dominant medium.
The digital communication our lives are now structured around have a powerful isolating effect. In her 2024 piece for The New Yorker where she initially explored the idea that would later become her book, Lepore described the artificial state as the “factory farming of public life, the sorting and segmenting, the isolation and alienation, the destruction of human community.”
The artificial state isn’t purely driven by AI, but it’s certainly being accelerated by it. People are asking ChatGPT about who to vote for, rather than talking to their neighbors, local officials, or experts. The political messages they’re seeing, meanwhile, are probably in part being written with AI. Decisions at every level are being made with the assistance of thinking machines. AI is also entrenching surveillance, processing the mountains of data that is being gathered on all of us.
One nefarious aspect of the pro-AI rhetoric coming out of Silicon Valley is that it frames AI as an inevitability. But Lepore argued that this brand of fatalism is a “bogus premise,” itself nestled on top of several more dubious propositions. One we hear endlessly is that regulation stifles innovation, so the government should take the handbrake off AI development. The other is that technology always advances democracy, which assures us that all of the very real threats to democracy AI poses in the present will magically sort themselves out.
Neither of those are true, Lepore says, and you have to look no further than how similar promises were made for technologies in the recent past.
“So now, the AI people come back with the same argument that was made about the internet — the personal computer, the internet, and social media,” she said in the interview.
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