More and more voices around the world are acknowledging our algorithmically mediated reality. Reality is to say that algorithmic systems are algorithmic power. The Legitimacy We Never Questioned In March 2023, the Future of Life Institute and thousands of signatories, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steve Wozniak, called for a six-month pause in training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This asks for the power to pause. Later that year, Dar