Undemocratic technologies. Killer robot dogs

Human intellect is the source of many of its own problems.

Errors in thinking and biases express itself in undemocratic technologies and killer robot dogs.

AI fulfills that dread of undemocratic technologies

There is zero transparency in the development of technologies that end up governing much of our lives.

Instead of tools being manufactured by people to achieve specific public goals, undemocratic technologies are introduced without any specific aim and manufacturing the users them by warping their behavior.

It’s a scary situation that is current and impossible to decouple as society is being developed around them.

Is the iPhone such a service to humanity that it justifies a robotic chihuahua terminator. Are the problems it creates worth the meager savings and shareholder value it creates.

Who is driving the AI hysteria and why. Who is putting the scripts in the pundits hands, writing the copy for tech journalists and celebrating the ‘with-it’ politicians?

It is the companies that care about me, and indeed, humanity, and indeeder, improving shareholder return.

What a bettr* world it would be, if they had it their way, which they likely will, and massively fired their frothy workforce, moving those lives to the public pocketbook.

Worshipping tech and algorithms

Algorithms are gospel because we have made computers our idols. Data is theologized.

Worship binds its practitioners into a faith that computational social change is pre-determined and inevitable. And therefore…

Resistance is futile

Technological religiosity eases its adherents from any responsibility for their choices regarding development, adoption, and implementation of new undemocratic technologies. Amazon is something we don’t have to think about, it is ‘there’. It offers same day delivery.

Algorithms turns computers into gods and their outputs as scripture.

That core of disciples are technically proficient, digitally minded people that reject traditional religions and superstitions.

They have set out to come up with a better, more scientific framework. But then they re-create versions of those old religious superstitions. In the technical world these same superstitions are just as damaging, and in similar ways, as before.

The End (Apocalypse?)