added to my beautiful warnings collection. Fry citing Black Mirror to represent the dystopic threat of AI social credit is a perfect an example of how important

added to my beautiful warnings collection. Fry citing Black Mirror to represent the dystopic threat of AI social credit is a perfect an example of how important fiction is. Orwell's novels prevented national identity systems for more than half a century. stalling these systems using the obstacle of having to overcome peoples apprehension of it from art gave us time to muddle through. I disagree with him on coordinating an international regulatory response because the threat isn't from the tech, it's from the people with the tech (the NRA argument essentially, but hobbling the virtuous in the hope of depriving the malicious will always be an irreconcilable perspective to me). the analogy of AI to money is compelling, but it reduces to an argument for people in institutions to reach into the substrate of something to seize its means of production to control it. money regulation just happens to be the most sophisticated, transnational, and least constrained regulatory system to bring to bear on it, but the similarities to AI end there. money isn't an analogy for AI, the regulation of money is an analogy for the complete global control he's advocating. his appeal for regulation is an appeal to force. these are important ideas and the beauty in them is aesthetic armament for conflicts ahead, but like his artistic forebear P.G. Wodehouse, on this issue I think he's equipping the wrong side.