Various AIs are put to the test with the famous "trolley problem" and the larger issue of self-sacrifice. At this stage in development, you do not want AI to be put in charge of life-and-death decisions for human beings. But the reality is that AI probably already holds some of those levers of power despite the fact that it has no mind and doesn't really care. How blithely we give up our own autonomy, privacy, and authority—our own freedom—in our pursuit of dependence. Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm was a partial Marxist, but maybe he was right.
Friday, April 03, 2026
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