{"id":119963,"date":"2021-02-25T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/artificial-intelligence-is-killing-choice-and-chance-changing-what-it-means-to-be-human"},"modified":"2021-02-25T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:23:04","slug":"artificial-intelligence-is-killing-choice-and-chance-changing-what-it-means-to-be-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/artificial-intelligence-is-killing-choice-and-chance-changing-what-it-means-to-be-human","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is killing choice and chance \u2013 changing what it means to be human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-is-killing-choice-and-chance-changing-what-it-means-to-be-human3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) \u2014 <\/strong>The history of humans\u2019 use of technology has always been a history of co-evolution.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hmBgJjfjG7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to Carl Schmitt have argued that technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends. Technological innovations \u2013 from the most rudimentary to the most sophisticated \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hmBgJjfjG7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reshape people<\/a> as they use these innovations to control their environment. Artificial intelligence is a new and powerful tool, and it, too, is altering humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Writing \u2013 and later, the printing press \u2013 made it possible to carefully record history and easily disseminate knowledge, but it eliminated centuries-old traditions of oral storytelling. Ubiquitous digital and phone cameras have changed how people experience and perceive events. Widely available GPS systems have meant that drivers rarely get lost, but a reliance on them has also atrophied their native capacity to orient themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) \u2014 The history of humans\u2019 use of technology has always been a history of co-evolution. Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to Carl Schmitt have argued that technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends. Technological innovations \u2013 from the most rudimentary to the most sophisticated \u2013 reshape people as they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}