AI is a Trojan Horse : A Rationale

Abstract

Mainstream media report that governments and business leaders see AI as an "extinction-level threat" to humans. In posthumanism, we find, besides conceptional tools for thinking technology in an indeterministic way, also argumentations for singularity, accelerationism and appeasement towards strong AI. Notwithstanding the heterogeneity of the field, the eminent posthumanist claim that autonomous machines can be a conscient other is a fallacy. An analysis of computer language as Derridean writing shows that computational, supposedly autonomous machines run on algorithmic, linguistic, written code. As such, they are extensions of human cognition. To proclaim machines conscient and autonomous, is hence not just misleading per se, but disguises the human agency that uses the AI-autonomy as a proxy.

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