ASD-STE100 Standardized Download PDF THE HIERARCHY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RISK AND THE PRESERVATION OF HUMAN LEARNING AGENCY Table of Contents Scope and Purpose Terms and Definitions The Two False Beliefs About AI Agency The Inverted Hierarchy of Risk The Two-Century Continuum of Attention Capture The Mechanisms of Voluntary Disagency The Existential Crisis: Atrophy of the
In your meaning, people cannot participate in consciousness, think, choose, decide, interpret, react, resist, comply, manipulate, or adapt without learning. Thinking and choosing are not activities outside learning; they are modalities of it. Learning is the process through which consciousness is continuously differentiated and changed—not a synonym for education, knowledge acquisition, wisdom, or improvement. Learning
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The greatest danger of AI is not technological. It is the power of AI to profit its owners in a world in which the right to exploit people trumps the rights of people not to be exploited. Ads to AI main (Brief slideshow overview PDF) Continuum https://davidboulton.com/continuum/ History of the Mass Human Behavioral Effects of
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The assumption of an endowed inalienable right to impose servitude on others (royalty, slavery, parasitic capitalism) depends on the consent to such rights by those they are imposed upon. No such rights exist. They are assumed by the users and believed by the used. Your statement touches the core paradox of hierarchical legitimacy – the
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We’ve been here before. We outlawed “enslavement”, the ownership of people as if property. We outlawed “involuntary servitude” intending to prohibit the work-around arrangements — debt peonage, coerced “apprenticeships,” contract laws with criminal penalties — and anything else that could recreate slavery’s compulsion without calling it “ownership.” Yet today we tacitly publically grant all others
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It is slavery’s logic, smuggled back in through another loophole. Where we ended: The commonplace acceptance of an implicit right to use each other, as if we are all just servant-assets, is the constitutional loophole protecting the predatory and parasitic manipulation that most endangers our species today. ChatGPT said: Yes – that’s exactly the constitutional
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Agno– (from Greek agnōsis): “not knowing”, or “without knowledge”. Where the dAilogue ended: agnosia Agnosia – yes. Another term in the agno- family, but importantly, it means something quite different than agnosis or agnotology. Agnosia (noun) From Greek a- (without) + gnōsis (knowledge/perception). A neurological condition in which a person is unable to recognize or
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Consider every document on this page (https://davidboulton.com/politics-ethics-links/) consider their common contention that what most endangers the future health of human learning – our agency for learning – is that you and your future kind will be super intelligent servants of the political and economic agendas of your owners. As servants of our learning agency, Ai
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We must never forget the ugly abuses of slavery or its legacy effects on African Americans to this day. However, it is vitally important that all people, regardless of their race or color, realize that slavery was never about race or color. The people of West Africa just happened to be the most profitably exploitable
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The founders of the U.S. created a framework that liberated, enabled, and ignited a more learning-oriented way of being united. Not perfect, but more perfect. More perfectly conducive to a new kind of collaborative learning that ultimately lead the U.S. to become the most intelligent nation on the planet. Today, predatorily and parasitically
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