The Future of Humanless Decision Making

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5 points·brandonlipman··4 comments

I think the story touches on a really critical issue, how are companies going to take responsibility of having access to so much of our data?

Seems odd to think about a world where machines are making decisions. Is this really relevant? I don't think it will ever happen IMHO. But who knows.

The ultimate evolution of this, of course, is the fully autonomous corporation. Imagine a future where most human labor involved some Uber-like interface with an autocorp, and employment was filled on an as-need basis by some inscrutable algorithm, and the lifetime of a job was typically measured in seconds and not years.

The more automated the world becomes, the more necessary it becomes to make sure humans adapt to the machine, and not machines to humans. Consider autonomous vehicles, and the case when humans can no longer travel long distances without asking permission for, and putting themselves entirely in the hands of, an AI solely to guarantee the traffic control algorithms remain unperturbed by slow and chaotic primates making stupid decisions on their own.

Eventually, as the autocorps and automation took over, the economy as a function of ever more intelligent AIs interacting would become so fast and complex that humans would no longer be able to participate in any meaningful way, except as slave labor, or perhaps cheap industrial lubricant.

I'm pretty sure I stole this idea from cstross or somebody.

I think this is definitely interesting. My goal was to look at how incredible the networks of data are. I strongly believe that data is going to be the core focus for AI. After we have data then AI's will take a bigger role. I don't think that will be a time where AI will ever physically prevent us from doing what we want.

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