“AGI-ism is just a bastard child of a much grander ideology, one preaching that, as Margaret Thatcher memorably put it, there is no alternative, not to the market.”
– Tech critic
Evgeny Morozov, pointing out that
artificial general intelligence (AGI) is synonymous with neoliberalism. In a screed warning we should not be fooled by well meaning entrepreneurs and AI-boosters who see AGI as a way to ‘fix’ institutions, Morozov states exactly how high the stakes are: “good luck discerning the meaning of the Hippocratic oath by observing hospitals that have been turned into profit centres.”
