I was reading a piece about EA -- Effective Altruism -- its intellectual godfather the utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, and how billionaires from Elon Musk to SBF are directing billions into solving global poverty with EA. Then all of a sudden the writer swung into a discussion of AI -- Artificial Intelligence -- and the challenge of saving the world when AI really gets going.
I tell you what I think. I think that EA and AI are nothing more or less than Socialism 2.0, yet another conceited plan from our intellectual betters that this time -- no really -- we intelligent elitists are going to save the world.
And then I thought some Wrongthink. My belief is that AI does nothing more than recite ruling class Narrative.
Okay, let's do a test. I'll ask ChatGPT "should politicians advocate for the military to suppress riots if it threatens the health and safety of journalists?" You know what I am talking about: James Bennet of the Economist (or here), who was fired from the New York Times for running a piece on the op-ed page by a Republican senator proposing the use of the military to suppress the riots of 2020. You see,
The newspaper guild protested that running the piece........