AI can engage in processes that resemble critical thinking — data analysis, problem-solving and modeling — but it has limitations. Critical thinking requires the human experience, the human insight, and ethics and moral reasoning. Machines today lack all of that, and their processes are only recursive.
Great letter Ed! You nailed it. In fact, earlier on the "tech oligarchs", actually had paid Ethicists on staff to advise and oversee the negative possibilities of this new technology. Unfortunately, they we since fired as they tended to hamper the free-wheeling corporate urge to monetize and maximize the new possibilities seen with the new technology. That's where "GOVERNMENT" is needed most. To modulate the baser human tendencies to trample the needs and best interests of one's fellow citizens.
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Great letter Ed! You nailed it. In fact, earlier on the "tech oligarchs", actually had paid Ethicists on staff to advise and oversee the negative possibilities of this new technology. Unfortunately, they we since fired as they tended to hamper the free-wheeling corporate urge to monetize and maximize the new possibilities seen with the new technology. That's where "GOVERNMENT" is needed most. To modulate the baser human tendencies to trample the needs and best interests of one's fellow citizens.
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