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Author links AI issues to societal shifts enabling fascism

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The author draws a parallel between the societal conditions that allowed fascism to rise and current issues with AI. They suggest that a shift away from absolute truths towards pragmatism and positivism, as described by Horkheimer, mirrors the reliance on probabilistic computing in modern AI development. This reliance, in the author's view, contributes to AI's shortcomings. AI

IMPACT Suggests current AI development, reliant on probabilistic computing, may echo societal vulnerabilities that historically enabled fascism.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece drawing parallels between historical societal conditions and current AI issues, based on a book.

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Author links AI issues to societal shifts enabling fascism

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    I've been reading # Horkheimer as my vacation book (real light reading, huh?), and it really strikes me of that all the problems that # fascism exploited, many

    I've been reading # Horkheimer as my vacation book (real light reading, huh?), and it really strikes me of that all the problems that # fascism exploited, many of them are related to why # AI sucks. In Horkheimer's view, the Nazis were able come along because society had already …

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