Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power Quotes

“Deep learning in machines is resulting in shallow knowledge in humans—an irony indeed. Cognitive skills like memory and attention span are atrophying, even as knowledge, authority and agency are being transferred from humans to machines. In effect, AI has managed to hack human psychology.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“Economists, social scientists and political thinkers are not trained to address the issue that robots do not pay taxes or buy houses and consumer goods to support the economy. Entirely new laws and public policies will be necessary, but as of now world leaders are in denial.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“The gap between human and machine intelligence is shrinking and intelligent machines often exceed human characteristics—in speed, accuracy, durability, cost efficiency and endurance.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“therefore, is to convince people they are being lulled into complacency, and that they are explicitly giving up their agency because of the seductive power of social media.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“Part Two presents the thought experiment according to which, if the present trajectory continues, India could be heading toward re-colonization, this time as a digital colony under the domination of the US and/or China.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“will explain that this is like welcoming back the East India Company with hugs and gratitude.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“nation’s sthula/physical body consists of its geography, infrastructure, resources and other tangible assets. There is a further distinction between internal affairs dealing with the domestic economy and employment, and foreign affairs to safeguard its interests internationally. Both of them concern the physical wellbeing. The sukshma/mental body of a nation is the state of its people’s mind and psychology. It is publicly or externally expressed as their identity, confidence and pride. Internally, it is the people’s experience of selfhood and spirituality.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“In Indian metaphysics, the sthula-sharira refers to the physical body and the sukshma-sharira refers to the mental and psychological body. Though conventionally this framework is applied to individual persons, I am extending it and applying it to nations.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“between the metaphysics of consciousness and AI’s reductionist challenge to spirituality.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“Readers with a background in philosophy, spirituality and ethics will be provoked by the battle”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“The digital dehumanization seems pleasant because the stimulation of pleasures and pains is being artificially managed to create a delusional life. This undermines the”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“Figure 2 illustrates my intellectual journey centered on physics and Vedanta as shown at the top, and my algorithm-based career shown at the bottom. The”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“come from the diametrically opposite side in this battle: I have been deeply invested in philosophies based on the primacy of consciousness.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“The success of AI is based on training machines to achieve intelligent behavior. This has empowered a worldview according to which life, mind and consciousness are merely biological processes running on human beings as machines”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“toward living in a world of artificially induced emotions and gratification. Eventually this trend leads to a syndrome I call moronization of the masses. This mode of existence feeds into the business models of digital capitalism, as shown in Figure 1.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“In a recent article, Zuboff exposes this hoax of free services in her powerful voice: We celebrated the new digital services as free, but now we see that the surveillance capitalists behind those services regard us as the free commodity. We thought that we search Google, but now we understand that Google searches us. We assumed that we use social media to connect, but we learned that connection is how social media uses us. …We’ve begun to understand that “privacy” policies are actually surveillance policies.… The Financial Times reported that a Microsoft facial recognition training database of 10 million images plucked from the internet without anyone’s knowledge and supposedly limited to academic research was employed by companies like IBM and state agencies that included the United States and Chinese military.… ….Privacy is not private, because the effectiveness of these and other private or public surveillance and control systems depends upon the pieces of ourselves that we give up—or that are secretly stolen from us.5 The private flow of data from consumer to machine also promotes the transfer of human agency from humans to machines. The data that surveillance companies capture is their source of power and is the fuel for the new economy of trillions of dollars. Zuboff has called this a “bloodless coup from above” and warns of a growing gap between “what we know and what is known about us”.6 By figuring out the cognitive comfort zones for individuals, AI-driven systems can deliver emotional and psychological needs, thus gradually”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“Shoshana Zuboff, a social psychologist, and author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, characterizes the transfer of data from the public to the digital giants as an act of theft.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“in some ways, machines know individuals even better than they know themselves, because people know only their conscious selves and cannot access their unconscious levels, and also because machines are capable of detailed and extremely long term memory that exceeds human capacity. Machines penetrate us far more”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“accepting that machines can uncover their private selves to the extent of knowing them better than a spouse or close friend. The”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“hijacking in progress through these technologies”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“Machines surreptitiously model individual psychological behavior by identifying the patterns of users’ choices, and then use these models to manipulate and control their actions.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“In effect, AI has managed to hack human psychology.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“Cognitive skills like memory and attention span are atrophying, even as knowledge, authority and agency are being transferred from humans to machines.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“Google is becoming the devata, or deity, that will instantly supply all knowledge. Mastering the rituals and tricks of interacting with this digital deity is considered a mark of achievement to be proudly flaunted among peers. Education”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“A troubling trend is that as machines get smarter, a growing number of humans are becoming dumber. In a sense, the public has outsourced”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“There is a realistic scenario for the re-colonization of the world differently, i.e. as digital colonies.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“How will the new haves and have-nots fight for resources, and how might such social disequilibrium ultimately play out? This battleground is important for industrialists and labor activists, as well as for economists and policymakers. Civic leaders, politicians, public intellectuals and media cannot continue to ignore the evolution of AI. More voices must enter”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“that is vital to survive a technological tsunami; the adverse effects could be shattering.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“AI will worsen the divide between the rich and poor, the haves and the have-nots. This will intensify the schism between the camps having divergent vested interests.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“We are entering an epoch of disequilibrium in which a period of chaos is inevitable. Eventually, however, a new equilibrium will be established, and a new kind of world will emerge. What follows is how AI is shaping these battles.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds