{"id":27601,"date":"2026-07-12T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27601"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:40:32","slug":"ai-and-the-false-consciousness-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=27601","title":{"rendered":"AI and the false consciousness trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yanisvaroufakis.eu\/2026\/07\/11\/ai-and-the-false-consciousness-trap-unherd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yanis Varoufakis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientifically speaking, all that goes on is that microscopic perturbations yield macroscopic consequences. Their proliferation, or extinction, is an indirect <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">by-product<\/span> of that dynamic \u2014 nothing more. Causality abounds, but teleology, intent or consciousness do not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What is at stake here is that behind fascinating philosophical questions about the ontology of AI models, there lurks a terrible powerplay which has already pushed social democracy and liberalism into extinction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If we convince ourselves \u2014 even vaguely \u2014 that their bots are conscious, we will not even resent their influence; we will welcome it, construing its suggestions as received wisdom, its flattery as helpful affirmation, its predictions as fate. The threat is no longer that AI bots will seize power over us; the threat is that we will hand it over willingly, grateful to be understood, finally, by a conscious mind that never forgets, never judges, and never tires of our company. The cage will be made of comfort, not coercion. Our slavery will be one we have consented to, enthusiastically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yanis Varoufakis: Scientifically speaking, all that goes on is that microscopic perturbations yield macroscopic consequences. Their proliferation, or extinction, is an indirect by-product of that dynamic \u2014 nothing more. Causality abounds, but teleology, intent or consciousness do not. \u2026 What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=27601\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27604,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27601\/revisions\/27604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}