It Was Never Intelligence. That Was the Point.
About this episode
This episode critiques the concept of artificial intelligence, arguing that it is a sales pitch for systems that are not truly intelligent but rather tools for prediction and sorting.
The word “intelligence” was never neutral. It was the sales pitch. This episode argues that the systems sold as artificial intelligence are not minds, thinkers, or neutral judges. They are privately owned prediction and sorting machines trained on human data, wrapped in language that makes people trust them, defer to them, and surrender power without asking who owns the system, who profits from it, or who answers when it is wrong. Name the machine correctly before it names you.
People in this episode
Host: Robert
Topics covered
- artificial intelligence
- trust in technology
- power dynamics
- data ownership
- prediction machines
Keywords
- intelligence
- artificial intelligence
- human data
- trust
- power
- prediction
- sorting machines
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