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, Daron Acemoglu and...

Gates is wrong to suggest that the world needs institutions capable of governing AI. Any institution created to govern power acquires power of its own and, like any power, tends toward self-preservation and expansion, ultimately organizing itself around its own continuity rather than merely constraining the power it was created to govern. What the world needs first is Trias Algorithmica. Just as Trias Politica separates rule-making, executive, and adjudicative powers, we now need a separation...

There is a persistent belief that once a decision is expressed mathematically, it becomes neutral. This confidence rests on a fallacy.