Technochauvinism
As human beings, our role in the technological world cannot be downplayed. While high-tech computers have the power to make complex calculations that humans cannot, we must remember that it is humans that feed it this data in the first place and if one piece of information is left out, the output is automatically flawed. The computer cannot fix itself the way a human being can heal when injured. As I was taught in my computer studies class in secondary school, “ Garbage in, garbage out." Not only are we not the same, but we are also superior. How can the created be greater than the creator? Techno chauvinism might falsely make us believe that technology in the form of Artificial Intelligence is more superior to humans. Unfortunately, it is against this back drop that Ayn Randian meritocracy- techno libertarian political values exist. Meredith Brousard in her book “ Artificial Unintelligence, How Computers Misunderstand the world,” states that under this mindset,...