Is Artificial Intelligence a Chaos God?

About this episode

The episode explores whether artificial intelligence is akin to a chaos god or if we are projecting our fears onto it.

Send us Fan Mail AI is starting to sound like mythology. We hear that it “wants,” it “decides,” it’s “out of control,” and it’s “taking over” and the more complex the systems get, the easier it is to treat them like forces beyond human control. So we tackle a question that’s provocative for a reason: is artificial intelligence a chaos god, or are we projecting ancient fears onto modern machines? We walk through the human habit of mythologizing what we don’t fully understand, then conne...

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Host: Jim Kunkle

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• mythology
• human behavior
• technology
• control

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• chaos god
• mythologizing
• technology
• human control

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