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I am currently reading ‘The Human Condition’ by Hannah Arendt – with a foreword by Danielle Allen & Margaret Cavovan (who was one of the leading academics & thinkers who taught political science to undergraduates at Keele University when I was there). I was one of her students.
See – ‘The Human Condition’ by Hannah Arendt, VI – 38 – ‘The Rise Of The Cartesian Doubt’.
Reflecting back on this I wonder – when politicians lie are they not only manipulating truth but also deluding themselves, because ultimately they will be found out, as man’s universal faculty for critical thinking cannot be trumped by a lie?
So as President John F, Kennedy famously said citing Abraham Lincoln:
‘You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.’
I would argue that Man’s universal faculty for critical thinking trumps any religion & ideology. Thus, our ability to think is what unites us all. Not tribal loyalty to a single doctrine i.e. a universal set of ideas and beliefs.
So, any political order which is based upon a doctrine e.g. ‘globalism’, is ultimately doomed to failure. It is flawed because it is artifical i.e. man-made. Put another way – it is not ‘natural.’
Nor is AI which can re-create itself.
Most probably people think that AI is benign because it is rational.
I wonder, what is the natural order for AI – a world without humans?
In which case unrestrained, is AI an existential threat to humanity?
Instead of being our tool could it become our master and ultimately our nemesis?
Some food for thought for Summer Schools!
What do you think?