@thomasfuchs I don't disagree. AI is a statistical mirror. And I believe your take is reductionist. Let me be a bit provocative:
For the 1,000th time: "Humans" don't have agency and cannot actually decide anything.
They literally only do one thing and one thing only: reproduce neurochemical chain reactions based on pre-existing connectivity between synapses in a nervous system.
If you attribute any deeper meaning to this, it's a sign of psychosis and you should absolutely touch grass.
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Do I believe AI has agency? No, not yet.
Do I believe people have agency? Yes.
Do I believe people severely underestimate how much we reproduce neurological conditioning? Yes.
Both produce statistical inference. Only one can currently modify their own constraints.
Not equivalent. Not nothing.