In this lively account, entrepreneur, filmmaker, and Sustainable Media Center executive director Rosenbaum takes readers on a road trip through contemporary thinking on AI and truth. From anecdotes, lectures, blog posts, and interviews with both prominent and lesser-known scholars and cultural commentators, he assembles a curated collage of issues. Rosenbaum repeatedly notes that AI-moderated truths are slippery, especially when motivated by profit. His discussion of the GameStop meme stock saga is emblematic, noting that \u201cTruth was whatever enough people decided it would be. Artificial intelligence doesn\u2019t create this phenomenon\u2014it perfects it.\u201d The observation underscores the invocation of \u201calternative facts\u201d by Kellyanne Conway, then-counselor to President Donald Trump. As Rosenbaum writes, \u201cHuman truth-making was always imperfect\u2014influenced by bias, limited information, emotional responses. Machine systems introduce a different kind of distortion: a Truth so mathematically complex, so rapidly generated and validated, that it becomes incomprehensible to human perception.\u201d AI\u2019s algorithmic biases can distort the news, medical, insurance, employment, and many other fields. While the book offers numerous examples of AI\u2019s ethical shortcomings, connecting the dots between anecdotes is less clear. Readers may wish for more scrutiny of who is building these systems and how power operates within major AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI. Rosenbaum concludes, \u201cThe most urgent question\u2026is not whether AI is inherently good or bad. Rather, it is whether the people and institutions developing, funding, and profiting from AI are willing to confront the profound ethical dilemmas that arise.\u201d Although the book does not resolve these dilemmas or cover much new ground, it sketches a cautiously optimistic framework for disentangling truth, technology, and human responsibility. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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