Seductive AI

AI has always been thought of in one of two ways: violent overlord, or benevolent savior in a world moving faster than humans can keep up with. However, while we’ve been concerned with ferocious domination, we’ve already started along a path of soft oppression. It’s not about domination, but seduction. There is no doubt that AI is useful, but “being highly useful is the subtlest form of seduction there is.”

In this Broadside, Glenn Harlan Reynolds explores how AI need only take advantage of...