Mid-week Meltdown - Trumpty Dumpty can choose to call AI whatever he wants, but even supine tech leaders can’t stick to the script
When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master? That’s all.”
An apposite citation from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass for this morning in light of the performative shenanigans at the White House yesterday as the globally critical issue of AI safety and ethics was reduced to a parade of compliant tech leaders wheeled out to endorse Donald Trump’s latest linguistic contortions.
Fresh from unilaterally deciding on the Gulf of America and Lake America, Trump has spent the last week or so mulling over his pet thesis that the universally understood term 'Artificial Intelligence' or AI somehow isn’t good enough and the way to get...
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