Ted Chiang
Dennis Fischer <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:40:52 +0000
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------=_Part_2873950_2090558320.1513863652202 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This visionary sci-fi author sees the destruction of human civilization: pr= edatory capitalism Ted Chiang examines how Silicon Valley has become its own worst nightmare JACOB SUGARMAN,=C2=A0ALTERNET12.20.2017=E2=80=A24:23 PMThe political theori= st Frederic Jameson once observed that "it has become easier to imagine the= end of the world than the end of capitalism." But what if predatory capita= lism finally destroys life on earth? That's the question posed by science f= iction writer Ted Chiang, who argues that in "superintelligent AI," Silicon= Valley capitalists have "unconsciously created a devil in their own image,= a boogeyman whose excesses are precisely their own."In a new=C2=A0essay fo= r Buzzfeed, part of a series about the forces shaping our lives in 2017, th= e acclaimed author of "Arrival" (Stories of Your Life and Others) deconstru= cts our fear of artificial intelligence; specifically, that of tech titans = like Tesla founder Elon Musk. For Musk, the real threat is not a malevolent= computer program rising up against its creator like Skynet in the=C2=A0Ter= minator=C2=A0films as much as AI destroying humanity by accident. In a=C2= =A0recent interview with Vanity Fair, Musk imagines a mechanized strawberry= picker wiping out the species simply as a means of maximizing its producti= on. "This scenario sounds absurd to most people, yet there are a surprising num= ber of technologists who think it illustrates a real danger. Why?" Chiang w= onders. "Perhaps it=E2=80=99s because they=E2=80=99re already accustomed to= entities that operate this way: Silicon Valley tech companies."In Musk's h= ypothetical, the destruction of human civilization follows the logic of the= free market."Consider: Who pursues their goals with monomaniacal focus, ob= livious to the possibility of negative consequences? Who adopts a scorched-= earth approach to increasing market share?" Chiang continues. "[The] strawb= erry-picking AI does what every tech startup wishes it could do =E2=80=94 g= rows at an exponential rate and destroys its competitors until it=E2=80=99s= achieved an absolute monopoly."=C2=A0Ultimately, the catastrophe Musk and = others foretell has already arrived in the form of "no-holds-barred capital= ism.""We are already surrounded by machines that demonstrate a complete lac= k of insight, we just call them corporations," Chiang continues. "Corporati= ons don=E2=80=99t operate autonomously, of course, and the humans in charge= of them are presumably capable of insight, but capitalism doesn=E2=80=99t = reward them for using it. On the contrary, capitalism actively erodes this = capacity in people by demanding that they replace their own judgment of wha= t 'good' means with 'whatever the market decides.'"For Chiang, the operativ= e word is insight. Our capacity for self-reflection, or the "recognition of= one's own condition," is what separates humans from the Googles, Facebooks= and Amazons. And it is this deficiency that makes these monopolies so uniq= uely dangerous."We need for the machines to wake up, not in the sense of co= mputers becoming self-aware, but in the sense of corporations recognizing t= he consequences of their behavior," he concludes. "Just as a superintellige= nt AI ought to realize that covering the planet in strawberry fields isn=E2= =80=99t actually in its or anyone else=E2=80=99s best interests, companies = in Silicon Valley need to realize that increasing market share isn=E2=80=99= t a good reason to ignore all other considerations." ------=_Part_2873950_2090558320.1513863652202 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head></head><body><div style=3D"color:#000; background-color:#fff; f= ont-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font= -size:13px"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family:= Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: auto 300px auto auto; outline= : 0px; padding: 20px 92px 0px 175px; vertical-align: baseline; position: re= lative; width: auto; max-width: 1186px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391= 786_52784"><h1 style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: &= quot;Domaine Display Extra Bold", serif; 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font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; pad= ding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786= _52858"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; border: 0px; = font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; vertical-align: ba= seline; line-height: 1.5; word-break: break-word;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_= 1513816391786_52859"><a href=3D"http://www.alternet.org/" style=3D"box-sizi= ng: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; fon= t-weight: inherit; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; vertical-ali= gn: baseline; color: rgb(238, 44, 29); text-decoration-line: none !importan= t;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52860"><img src=3D"http://media.s= alon.com/2015/01/unnamed.png" alt=3D"AlterNet" style=3D"box-sizing: border-= box; max-width: 100%; min-height: auto; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;" id=3D"yu= i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52861" data-id=3D"5df7e3a6-0a4d-c3a4-acd4-893= f99aa3d5f"></a></div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0p= x; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin:= 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52862"><div dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"box-sizing: border= -box; font-size: 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; paddi= ng-bottom: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5; word-break: br= eak-word;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52863">The political theor= ist Frederic Jameson once observed that "it has become easier to imagine th= e end of the world than the end of capitalism." But what if predatory capit= alism finally destroys life on earth? That's the question posed by science = fiction writer Ted Chiang, who argues that in "superintelligent AI," Silico= n Valley capitalists have "unconsciously created a devil in their own image= , a boogeyman whose excesses are precisely their own."</div></div><div styl= e=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style:= inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; ve= rtical-align: baseline;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52864"><div = style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; border: 0px; font-style: i= nherit; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-= height: 1.5; word-break: break-word;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786= _52865">In a new <a href=3D"https://www.buzzfeed.com/tedchiang/the-rea= l-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway?utm_term=3D.go4JqmvQa#.wg3Lwgy= l9" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-fa= mily: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-style: in= itial; outline-width: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(238, 44, 29= ); text-decoration-line: none !important;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15138163= 91786_52866">essay for Buzzfeed</a>, part of a series about the forces shap= ing our lives in 2017, the acclaimed author of "<a href=3D"https://www.imdb= .com/title/tt2543164/?ref_=3Dfn_al_tt_1" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-siz= ing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; fo= nt-weight: inherit; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; vertical-al= ign: baseline; color: rgb(238, 44, 29); text-decoration-line: none !importa= nt;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52867">Arrival</a>" (<a href=3D"= https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang-ebook/dp/B0048EKOP0/= ref=3Dsr_1_1?s=3Dbooks&ie=3DUTF8&qid=3D1513661149&sr=3D1-1&= keywords=3Dstories+of+your+life+and+others" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-= sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;= font-weight: inherit; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; vertical= -align: baseline; color: rgb(238, 44, 29); text-decoration-line: none !impo= rtant;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52868">Stories of Your Life a= nd Others</a>) deconstructs our fear of artificial intelligence; specifical= ly, that of tech titans like Tesla founder Elon Musk. For Musk, the real th= reat is not a malevolent computer program rising up against its creator lik= e Skynet in the Terminator films as much as AI destroying humanit= y by accident. In a <a href=3D"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03= /elon-musk-billion-dollar-crusade-to-stop-ai-space-x" target=3D"_blank" sty= le=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style= : inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px= ; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(238, 44, 29); text-decoration-line: = none !important;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52869">recent inter= view with Vanity Fair</a>, Musk imagines a mechanized strawberry picker wip= ing out the species simply as a means of maximizing its production.</div></= div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0= ); border-right: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; font-family:= inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 17px; = outline: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 20px; padding-left: 0px; ve= rtical-align: baseline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0,= 0, 0) !important; padding-bottom: 17px !important;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_= 1_1513816391786_52870"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; f= ont-family: "Roboto Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-st= yle: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;= vertical-align: baseline;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52871"><b= r></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inh= erit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;= padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_y= m19_1_1513816391786_52872"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0p= x; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin:= 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 11.9688px; vertical-align: baselin= e; width: 296.594px; position: relative; -webkit-box-flex: 2; flex-grow: 2;= flex-shrink: 1;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52877"></div></div>= </div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inher= it; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; p= adding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15138163917= 86_52884"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; border: 0px= ; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; vertical-align: = baseline; line-height: 1.5; word-break: break-word;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_= 1_1513816391786_52885">"This scenario sounds absurd to most people, yet the= re are a surprising number of technologists who think it illustrates a real= danger. Why?" Chiang wonders. "Perhaps it=E2=80=99s because they=E2=80=99r= e already accustomed to entities that operate this way: Silicon Valley tech= companies."</div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; = font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0p= x; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_= ym19_1_1513816391786_52886"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; font-size= : 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px= ; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5; word-break: break-word;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52887">In Musk's hypothetical, the dest= ruction of human civilization follows the logic of the free market.</div></= div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit= ; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; pad= ding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786= _52888"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; border: 0px; = font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; vertical-align: ba= seline; line-height: 1.5; word-break: break-word;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_= 1513816391786_52889">"Consider: Who pursues their goals with monomaniacal f= ocus, oblivious to the possibility of negative consequences? 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border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: = inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;= " id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52938"><div style=3D"box-sizing: bo= rder-box; font-size: 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; p= adding-bottom: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5; word-break= : break-word;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52939">Ultimately, the= catastrophe Musk and others foretell has already arrived in the form of "n= o-holds-barred capitalism."</div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box= ; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inhe= rit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52940"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border= -box; font-size: 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; paddi= ng-bottom: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5; word-break: br= eak-word;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52941">"We are already sur= rounded by machines that demonstrate a complete lack of insight, we just ca= ll them corporations," Chiang continues. "Corporations don=E2=80=99t operat= e autonomously, of course, and the humans in charge of them are presumably = capable of insight, but capitalism doesn=E2=80=99t reward them for using it= . On the contrary, capitalism actively erodes this capacity in people by de= manding that they replace their own judgment of what 'good' means with 'wha= tever the market decides.'"</div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box= ; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inhe= rit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52942"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border= -box; font-size: 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; paddi= ng-bottom: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5; word-break: br= eak-word;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52943">For Chiang, the ope= rative word is insight. Our capacity for self-reflection, or the "recogniti= on of one's own condition," is what separates humans from the Googles, Face= books and Amazons. And it is this deficiency that makes these monopolies so= uniquely dangerous.</div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; borde= r: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; ma= rgin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" id=3D"yui= _3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52944"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; f= ont-size: 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding-bott= om: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5; word-break: break-wor= d;" dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513816391786_52945">"We need for t= he machines to wake up, not in the sense of computers becoming self-aware, = but in the sense of corporations recognizing the consequences of their beha= vior," he concludes. "Just as a superintelligent AI ought to realize that c= overing the planet in strawberry fields isn=E2=80=99t actually in its or an= yone else=E2=80=99s best interests, companies in Silicon Valley need to rea= lize that increasing market share isn=E2=80=99t a good reason to ignore all= other considerations."</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></h= tml> ------=_Part_2873950_2090558320.1513863652202--