Pop culture is failing to prepare us to the shattering existential & moral questions that will arise from technologies like AI or CRISPR.
How do you compete with AI, in a world where Netflix can generate on the fly content tailored for you? Horror movies playing on your fears? Drama playing on your traumas? Where music is generated to your taste? Where your favorite game masterpiece is endless?
It will be the death of shared pop culture. Everybody in its own personal bubble of customized content. It’s already happening. Algorithms are killing serendipity, reinforcing & solidifying your tastes, your interests, your worldviews instead of diversifying & challenging them.
What is the future of childhood, of education, of friendship, when we’ll be nurtured by AIs tailored for our growth & needs?
What is the future of love & sexuality once AIs will be tailored for us better than we could ever hope to find in real life?
All the objects around us have been designed by us. This won’t be the case in 20 years. How will it feel to not be able to optimize what’s around us? To not be able to come up with better ideas and solutions? To not be in charge of our own evolution, our own social organization?
Policymakers.
Source: Excerpt from this thread: https://nitter.nl/timsoret/status/1083535103534555137#m