AI Aims to Preempt Choice and Chance

AI Aims to Preempt Choice and Chance
Artificial intelligence is trying to learn how you think and respond so that your behaviors can be better predicted and manipulated. Alexander Limbach/Shutterstock
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The history of humans’ use of technology has always been a history of coevolution. Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to Carl Schmitt have argued that technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends.

Technological innovations—from the most rudimentary to the most sophisticated—reshape people as they use these innovations to control their environment. Artificial intelligence is a new and powerful tool, and it, too, is altering humanity.
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