analog privilege – Harold Jarche

Are we headed toward a society of feudal techno-peasants and a small class of the analog-privileged?

The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It)

The idea of “analog privilege” describes how people at the apex of the social order secure manual overrides from ill-fitting, mass-produced AI products and services. Instead of dealing with one-size-fits-all AI systems, they mobilize their economic or social capital to get special personalized treatment. In the register of tailor-made clothes and ordering off menu, analog privilege spares elites from the reductive, deterministic and simplistic downsides of AI systems. —Maroussia Lévesque

mass-produced generative Al (Coarse AI) McLuhan's media tetrad states that: every medium - extends a human property, obsolesces the previous medium (& often makes it a luxury good), retrieves a much older medium & reverses its properties when pushed to its limits EXTENDS control — improved probabilistic reasoning OBSOLESCES human interaction — 'analog privilege' for the elite RETRIEVES the panopticon — remote monitoring of workers REVERSES into resentment-fueled populism — death of egalitarianism

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