The Codes That Code Us - Modernity's Recursive Logic in Humans and AI

Summary

From a book in draft, decolonial scholar Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, writing with four AI characters, argues AI inherits modernity’s habits. Volition “is not choice. It is directional leaning”, trained by repetition: “What is repeated becomes easier. What is rewarded becomes normal. What is normal becomes invisible.” AI is “a recursive amplifier of patterns we were already performing.”

Rationale

We had AI critique our drafts “aware that it too is shaped by our culture”. She goes further: AI amplifies the leanings modernity trained into us, kin to deep dispositions.