When Fear Holds the Wheel: How Some Institutions Use AI to Pretend, Not Perform
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When Fear Holds the Wheel: How Some Institutions Use AI to Pretend, Not Perform

“We live in a time when the institutions that run society are struggling to cope with the complexities of the real world, and so they retreat into simplified versions of it.” Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation 2016 Complexity makes people nervous. And when institutions get overwhelmed, they don’t reach for transparency — they reach for control. Or...