Judy Estrin is on fire in her op-ed for Time Magazine.

“What is happening is not just a battle for market control. A small number of tech titans are busy designing our collective future, presenting their societal vision, and specific beliefs about our humanity, as theonly possible path. Hiding behind an illusion of natural market forces, they are harnessing their wealth and influence to shape not just productization and implementation of AI technology, but also the research.“

She goes on to talk about the politics of inevitability and how we are tricked into thinking the future dictated by big tech is unavoidable. (Pro tip: it isn’t)

But this sentence actually caught me off-guard: “On the current trajectory we may not even have the option to weigh in on who gets to decide what is in our best interest.“

Do read it.

https://time.com/6302761/ai-risks-autonomy/

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