A new documentary traces the origins of modern AI companies to the racist eugenics movement of the last century.
A new documentary traces the origins of modern AI companies to the racist eugenics movement of the last century. - Star Trek Website
It sounded like a stretch to me at first, but if you consider that the very concept of intelligence as something quantifiable and measurable (like IQ) implies a linear scale where some (guess which ones) people are simply better. The funding behind AI comes out of a belief that it can be a tool to control and influence the population. It makes sense that it’s origins would be in something similar.
