Episode 13: Know Yourself or Live Inside the Machine's Delusion | K.G.I. Podcast

I love AI. I use it every day. But I don't buy the naive promise that handing complex systems to billions of people will create paradise.The danger isn't that AI becomes evil. The danger is that we don't know ourselves — and a system that can reason its way into anything will happily reason its way into our delusions. Two plus two equals five if you want it to. AI will write you the PhD-level argument. It feels like genius. It's psychosis with citations.This episode pulls on the printing press, two world wars, Marxist intellectuals who built ideology out of pure reason, and Dostoevsky's claim from Notes from Underground that humans will burn down paradise just to feel like they chose something. Then back to Socrates: know yourself, or live inside someone else's delusion. Or worse — inside the hallucinating machine you think you're in charge of.Read the full article: https://kirillkhrestinin.comMy book Mythos on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK