Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?
"It can be expected that supercomputers will soon surpass human capabilities in almost all areas—somewhere between 2020 and 2060...Is this alarmism?"<p>Short answer: Yes.<p>What is the evidence for this claim, upon which the premise of this article rests? The existence of algorithms that simulate human game play today is hardly it.<p>The authors have fallen into the trap of accepting the nomenclature of "artificial intelligence" without further questions. There is nothing "artificial" nor "intelligent" about it.<p>Rather, machine-learning algorithms are trained on a diet of human-derived data that is simply a reflection of existing human biases. The danger is in their human programmers being non-introspective of those biases, not in the algorithms themselves. Thus I personally am much more fearful of human-made decisions than non-human ones.<p>Don't hate the player, hate the game.