Neutrality is a prerequisite for discussions. This project is not a discussion.
I have a hard time understanding how a person who has ever talked to another person in their life could have that viewpoint.
This project claims to be promoting a discussion, therefore being the forum rather than a participant. If it itself takes a clear position from the start, it has already impaired the debate by turning itself into a participant vs those for the adoption of AI within government.
Unless its understanding of "dystopian" is one that's merely provocative rather than intrinsically evil or needs to be prevented.
As to neutrality being a prerequisite, are you trying to separate the idea of discussion from debate? I feel you may either have different basic definitional ideas than the people you are arguing with.
On this project specifically, and the notion of AI in government in general, and am reminded of a quote about late nineteenth and early twentieth century utopian fiction, “The authors expend all their effort describing the method of distributing resources without expanding on what the fair distribution is.”
By declaring the described future as undesirable, the authors' question and wish to stimulate a discussion is clouded with prejudice, IMHO.
Please cite your sources, friend. All my best discussions started with, “Bro, you’re an idiot if you think…”
It's up to us humans to decide whether discussions are better off taking place within a neutral/biased forum.
You said that "Neutrality is a prerequisite for discussions". It's factual claim. Do you have a some citation/proof/data that supports your claim? I bet there are plenty papers (or even better, meta-analysis) about discussions.
> It's up to us humans to decide whether discussions are better off taking place within a neutral/biased forum.
First in previous paragraph you stated that every discussion (you didn't specified which ones) needs neutrality and now you state that discussion can take place within biased forum and we should decide which type of discussion we value more aka. one with biased or unbiased forum? Maybe start with deciding which one this two statements is true.
Also neutrality is hard or even impossible.
Which question is a useful opener for a discussion:
- "How can we help Africa end starvation?" vs - "Should we send more aid to these ungrateful African countries who have been cozying up to China instead? (Obviously not)".
It should be obvious which is a discussion and which is merely a statement veiled as a rhetorical question. But hey maybe most people can't tell and that's why Fox news still has so many viewers.