Tech Elites Believe ‘Code Is Upstream from Culture’
Washington – Social media director for Breitbart News and New York Times The successful author Wynton Hall stressed that the conservatives needed a tacit position on artificial intelligence (AI) which can be distributed at the local level to compete with the story of the left AI.
Hall, the author of the next HarperCollins book, Dove deeply in the AI narrative war during a session panel in small groups on “AI and the American soul” at the National Conference of Conservatism in Washington, DC. He noted at the top of his remarks according to which the conservative movement contains well -defined beliefs on a range of key questions among the American electorate, but he is “less” with AI.
“I am only when we think of artificial intelligence in the conservative movement, the question is: what is the conservative position on AI?” I mean, when we talk about pro-life, we are talking about control of weapons obviously.
Hall has referred to the poignant quote from the founder of Breitbart News, Andrew Breitbart, according to which “politics is downstream of culture”, adding that technological elites take the position that “the code is upstream of culture”, which means that the technological sector influences culture.
“But I think the most important thing that I would like to focus is the narrative war on artificial intelligence,” said Hall. “I work at Breitbart. I wear many other hats, but Andrew, of course, said: “Politics are downstream of culture”. I think that technological elites believe that the code is upstream of culture and can therefore control and affect citizens in a very direct and powerful way. »»
“AI is the most, I think, a powerful political weapon. I don’t think it’s a tool. I think it is an information system that will affect almost all the political dimensions that all people here and in this conference and beyond, work – that you are talking about education, that you were talking about national security, certainly in economics and jobs, “continued Hall.
Hall has focused on three central subjects in its remarks: the challenges of the AI narrative war, agency AI, which are AI systems which require little human surveillance to accomplish tasks, and “fractal truths” which will help to sail in the development of AI to this point and what awaits the horizon.
Regarding the challenges of the AI narrative war, Hall underlined the social experience of the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, as president of Y combinator in 2016, where he sought to give low -income individuals $ 1,000 without strings. Altman said that such a model would one day be used at the national level, and even referenced the implications that this would have on the fundamental human motivation to work which has motivated society since the dawn of man.
“He was going to do it in pilot programs,” said Hall. “He was going to do it for several years. He meant what he had said; he achieved $ 14 million out of the $ 60 million in his own money and the reason he said he wanted to do it, he set up a blog article, and I read directly on his blog:” As technology eliminates jobs and a new massive wealth is created, we will see a version of that on a national scale “.
“Now, all of us, we all recognize that it is a universal or UBI basic income, but then he dropped the mask a little and let the mask slide even beyond. In his blog comments, he wrote:” I think that day it will seem ridiculous … that the fear of not eating was the way we motivated people economically. “Now, for people in the free market and people who believe in a kind of Judeo-Christian work ethics and the rest, it is a fairly strident declaration, right?” Asked rhetorically. “You really slam the hinge of human motivation for economic development, not only in terms of your own personal identity, your own ability to nourish yourself, but also to build richness and safety for your offspring. He was a very strong donor for democratic causes.
This brings the room to the node of the implications for society as a whole, because the position of Altman in 2016 essentially represents the democratic argument in the narrative war of AI.
“For centuries, the soul of America has prospered on the free markets fed by this notion of effort, and this question is, now, the mode of AI will mean that work is exceeded, dependence is progress, and leisure is the future? It is really the narrative war,” he said. “Whether it happens or not, that’s why we have these conversations, and I think we have to have these conversations.”
Hall expressed his concern among the conservatives at the local level, noting that there is no clear position on the AI among the conservative base.
“I am personally very concerned about the fact that at the local level, we are really not entirely also trained on these subjects and that we are really thinking about the five -dimensional failure that we are going to face,” Hall in the room told. “Our usual place is a default position of defective preservatives to respond to automation with the same chorus, right?” Oh, I have heard that. But of course, this time, the titans of AI claim that it will be different and we are talking about … Dario Amodei, obviously Sam Altman, Mustafa Suleyman at Microsoft AI. »»
“Some conservatives turn around and say:” Well, you know, look, llms [Large Language Models] are only stochastic parrots. It is nothing more than an automatic quality of fantasy. Nothing to do here. Even Yann Lecun says that a LLM is not smarter than your middle house cat. It will not be an economic threat to the way it has been applied. But of course, those who study AI and who certainly build it have a reply to make, “he continued.” And this is the node of the point, which will be agentic AI, and whether the promises we hear or not, you know, recently, two months ago, the level of anthropic white collar level. »»
Hall stressed that it is a major concern for young people and those who have children and raising families, adding that the left is working to sell employment trips as “imminent and inevitable”.
“If you played with an agentic AI, you might feel like” Wow, it’s very emerging. We always have all these problems with hallucinations. You are going to have all kinds of problems with the authorizations and the rest, whether you are talking about the comet of Perplexity or the operator of Openai. “” But here is the narrative torsion for us, I think politically: it almost does not matter – this reality in the short term. Detailed hall. “And, you know, that it is the movement that the left has done because they do not hide it. They literally say, as Ilhan Omar said,” Covid was only a dry race for Ubi, right? We have gotten used to people of mailbox money, and now that we have sown this field, it is time for the three -day work week, the four -day work week. “We also see Bill Gates this story.”
Hall’s position is that agency AI is not simply “media threshing”, adding: “I’m talking about the replacement of autonomous autonomous work”.
Hall concluded by offering five critical points to the Conservatives, the first being that they enter a “red era of code” assimilating the AI to fire, which can be used pragmatic to heat a meal or a destructive way to bring a civilization to ruin.
“I think that … we are entering a red era of code for the conservatives: the red code as an alert thrust, but also … We need a code. We must have a unified position,” said Hall, stressing that he is not talking about a narrow AI, that almost all the members of the company already use in the form of a meteorological application or a Netflix account.
“We are talking about big things, but if you believe that [AI] is like fire, so the torch carriers will have importance, and we must therefore understand that we will have large pendulums depending on political changes, “he predicted.
Second, in an increasing AI world, Hall predicts that American children will have to learn to create jobs rather than finding them, as was the societal standard, in particular given its third position that white collar jobs are vulnerable in the long term.
“I think you know, children will not just learn to find jobs; they will have to learn to create them, my personal point of view,” said Hall. “And cry out in the classic here, Spencer [Klavan]It is that trivium is always the base, but I think we could have two silos in addition to that, an entrepreneurial layer as well as an AI layer. I think that white collar jobs are really at risk in the long term, and there I mean five to ten years, probably less. The “more of X paradox”, this idea that the things we find difficult are easy for machines and vice versa, is true, and therefore the work of white collars tend to be more at risk than the blue collar. »»
Fourth, Hall says that the most substantial threat of the AI is the government bureaucracy.
“The biggest threat, I think, for people with smart brains in this room that we want to follow in the coming years with the AI trajectory, is bureaucracy,” said Hall. “I think the danger is invisible algorithms, a social credit powered by AI, a digital de-banking, a cancellation culture, scan and bank technology like Mike Benz is fighting against.”
Finally, Hall said that workers who are not at the end of their career will face “brutal speed efficiency” to continue.
“I think the last thing is at a personal level. If you are not at the end of your career, and you have large aspirations and fire in your stomach, you will have sudden speed efficiency to catch up because of the speed to which the ground changes,” he said.
Hall is optimistic that conservatives can win the AI narrative war, but stressed that the clock was running.
“I think the conservatives can win this narrative battle, but we have a lot of work to do because if the left wins, AI becomes dependence, surveillance and indoctrination, and America has drained its soul,” said Hall. “I think we, on the other hand, can fight against these pixelic prisons and keep your ideas flowing freely.”
“People often say that if you had to put it in a word, image in a way where we are currently. We have seen the action policy of the Trump, very pro-innovation, the very first word after the introduction is acceleration, so I think that we clearly have guidelines where politics will change,” he concluded. “But I would say that at the moment, the person every day sees in a way the good foot of America in the roses, the potential, if you want, metaphorically, then the left foot hovering on this potential, existential or political mine. I think, together, we hope with the brilliant spirit here and in this movement, we can plant both of the American feet on the virtuous soil and protect our soul.”
