Despair: Passivity in the Face of Predictive Power
摘要
Digital platforms crunching massive amounts of online data are adept at predicting and manipulating human behavior. They filter our choices, shape our decisions, and influence our actions. As these technologies become more powerful in the coming years, we face the prospect of an accelerated erosion of human agency and widespread passivity. Among other psychological ailments, participants of the AI-enabled attention economy will suffer from despair. Free will appears to be at stake.