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?"Short answer: Yes.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.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.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.Don't hate the player, hate the game.