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The “neutrality” of a technology has been triggering thought for some time now. I thought this visual from 1868 by the artist Vinzenz Katzler was delightful to add the text balloon to. –animasuri’22

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AI systems that are incredibly good at achieving something other than what we really want … AI, economics, statistics, operations research, control theory all assume utility to be exogenously specified” — Russell, Stuart 2017