Most Questions About AI Aren’t About AI - by Dan Williams
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Why the AI revolution is a golden age for polymaths, philosophers, and moderate epistemic despair
Epistemic status: big picture, speculative; the long-form writing equivalent of thinking out loud. Recently, I told a friend I had been reading a philosopher’s writings about AI. He scoffed: “What does a philosopher know about AI?” I could understand where he was coming from. His reaction illustrates a popular line of reasoning that might be put like this: AI is a complex technology. To think seriously about AI, one must therefore have deep technical expertise in how this technology works. Those who have this expertise are the “AI experts”. Those who lack it but write or talk about AI…
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