The Comfortable Critique - by Amitoj Singh
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I went to a talk recently about how AI companies manufacture ignorance about their own systems.
I went to a talk recently about how AI companies manufacture ignorance about their own systems. The speaker had developed a framework — a descendant of the tobacco industry's playbook, updated for the algorithmic age. Where cigarette companies funded studies to muddy the science of lung cancer, AI companies exploit genuine technical complexity to achieve the same result: strategic confusion about what they know and when they know it. The mechanism is specific. These companies oscillate between two kinds of uncertainty depending on who's in the room. Facing regulators, they invoke the…
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