AI, Enactment, and Democratic Self-Governance

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction The application of new AI technologies, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML), to strengthen democracy must be carefully scrutinized through the lens of Ezequiel Di Paolo’s enactive philosophy and Barbara Stiegler’s critique of expertocracy, as these thinkers challenge the foundational computational and elitist assumptions often underlying such technologies. Based …

How to Use AI to Empower Democracy? (ChatGPT answer, POC)

°°°°~x§x-<@> Question How can we use PDP (Parallel Distributed Processing) AI / “machine learning” techs to strengthen democratic individual collective intelligence and counter the excessive self-destructive and convergent path (fascism) of global neoliberal capitalism ? ChatGPT answer Great — love this question. I’ll answer in three parts: (A) how the PDP/connectionist paradigm maps onto collective …