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The Predictive Cage and Human Freedom


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Description: What happens to your identity when an AI system decides what you want before you do? A new piece on AGI Ethics News argues that agentic AI will create "predictive cages," feedback loops that lock people into their historical data and eliminate the capacity for surprise and self-reinvention. Oxford's Carina Prunkl challenges the concept of an "optimal" choice. Vienna's Mark Coeckelbergh rejects technical fixes like entropy buttons, arguing human freedom cannot be engineered. And Montreal's Yoshua Bengio may have built the architecture that refuses to cage you at all. 

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The AI North BriefBy Paul Karwatsky