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Matthew Segall critiques Big Tech's 'cognitive enclosure' via AI

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Matthew Segall argues against the commodification of human intelligence by Big Tech, particularly citing OpenAI's Sam Altman. He contends that current AI development represents an exploitative power grab aiming for cognitive enclosure, reducing human minds to mere manufactured goods. Segall calls for a rejection of this trend, emphasizing that it's not about refusing evolution but resisting corporate control over human cognition. AI

IMPACT Critiques the potential for AI to commodify human intelligence and enable corporate control over cognition.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an opinion piece by an author critiquing AI's impact on human intelligence and Big Tech's role.

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Matthew Segall critiques Big Tech's 'cognitive enclosure' via AI

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    ”Let us not allow our souls to be harvested and sold back to us on Altman’s intelligence meter. This is not a call to refuse what human evolution has always bee

    ”Let us not allow our souls to be harvested and sold back to us on Altman’s intelligence meter. This is not a call to refuse what human evolution has always been about. It is a call to refuse Big Tech’s extractive and exploitative power grab and attempt at cognitive enclosure, an…

    LINKS footnotes2plato.substack.com/…/artificial…

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