Why Technology Favors Tyranny

Clickbait for HN.

They can imagine ways in which AI can be used to consolidate power, but they can't quite imagine the ways in which tech can democratize and distribute power.

Which is funny, because "democratization" is in every other technology pitch I see.

They bring up the issue of eventual consciousness of AI, which is scary because nobody can say what that is. Except that humans have it, and apparently that is the "je ne sais quoi" that sets us apart.

So yeah, they call on everyone to help avert a dystopian future. Which I can agree with. But they frame it as "us vs. technologists" where I see it as we are all participating in creating the future. Build your own robot startup, don't wait around for Judgement Day.

There's a lot of plotting and plodding over artificial intelligence in our culture, from movies to politics. But we should look forward to the automation of simple tasks and not worry about creative and complicated ones.

Appealing to both science and religion: look at group IV of the periodic table where the structure of brains is higher than computers (C and Si) and then think about the creativity of Fairchild, Backus, Hopper, Richie, Jobs, Mcarthy, Page, etc. and have even more faith in our creator.