From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-anthropologist-artificial-intelligence-authority.html
Why do we put such trust into what ChatGPT is telling us?
The authority we give to AI has many sources, but the ones
that particularly interest me are the ones that are tapping
into the way we human beings have given authority to nonhuman
things in lots of different contexts over the course of human
history. We have a strong tendency to project intentions and
deep thoughts onto things that appear animate, things that
can use language like we do, or use signal systems like we
do, to communicate.
We've actually done this with ancient Delphic oracles in Greece
and ancient China. We did this with the I Ching, and it looks
to me like people are starting to do this, in many cases, with algorithmsrCoeven little things, simple things like a Fitbit or
Spotify recommendation algorithms, which again are saying things
like, "I know your taste better than you do."
. . .
Note my other post on an "AI Jesus".
Humans seem to innately put their faith in
things seeming above/beyond/super-human.
But, and pay attention, it IS humans setting
the biases/focus of those AIs, hiding just
behind the proverbial curtain. They have
agendas.
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