NCCP 700-1015 — Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 3)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello everyone, welcome to Nick Lan's Anthropo, the future of human security seminar, session 3. I'm going to pass on the camera and the mic to Nick to start. Okay, am I on? Welcome everybody, great to see you all. This week I've put two texts up that I'm going to treat as being our sort of strange attractor for this…

• 00:23:31

  So when you read, for instance, the Church-Turing thesis, these sort of decisive papers on the theory of computation, I think they have to be put in this context. You know, they've already got these machines, they've already got punch card technology that's come out of these lineages, and they already are therefore…

• 00:44:58

  For him, it kind of works itself out until the human becomes completely alienated away from the labor and is no longer even a function of it. Right. No, I think that's right. And I mean, this is why I think starting with Luttism is good. Because I think you can obviously say, as Mo is saying, that, there…

• 01:02:41

  I mean, if you're going to get ready to, I don't know, an extremely... I mean, for sure these scenarios all need to be pursued, but I'm skeptical about exactly what you're seeing here. Like, if we take it up to the most abstract level of this notion of doubt, people sitting around, what do we mean by the AI threat…

• 01:23:08

  I think the local industrial unit wants to simply cut labor costs. So getting rid of humans is not anything particularly ominous. It's not like a terminator scenario. Just simply if you can mechanize and you can do the same thing with 20 workers that you would be using to do with 40 workers, then you'll do that just…

• 01:42:52

  I mean, again, we're talking about the kind of, the masters of Silicon Valley, extremely competent hackers, the sort of top elite of the techno-competent population who are able to make their way around computer systems, who are not feeling that they are being managed by an installed artificial intelligence machine…

• 02:03:25

  Sure. And as well, there's been a discussion of UBI. Sure. And there seems to be quite a big black and white discussion. I see it a lot, which is why I like the institutionalists, is Marx critiques the perfect competition system of capitalism. Neoclassical economics takes that as a given and takes it as a good thing…

• 02:21:52

  I certainly don't mind talking for like another 10, 15 minutes about the stuff that we talked about with some of you if you'd like to stick around. But yeah, so I'm going to stop. I'm going to stop the broadcast. Thanks, everyone.