Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"My pessimism regarding what may come by 2035 arises from the recent and likely future developments of AI, machine learning, LLMs, and other (quasi-) autonomous systems. Such systems are fundamentally undermining the opportunities and affordances needed to acquire and practice valued human virtues.</p><p>“This will happen in two ways: first, patterns of deskilling, i.e., the loss of skills, capacities, and virtues essential to human flourishing and robust democratic societies, and then, second, patterns of no-skilling, the elimination of the opportunities and environments required for acquiring such skills and virtues in the first place."</p><p><a href="https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/we-fall-in-love-with-the-technologies-of-our-enslavement-the-next-generation-may-be-one-of-no-skilling-in-regard-to-essential-human-virtue-ethics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/</span><span class="invisible">we-fall-in-love-with-the-technologies-of-our-enslavement-the-next-generation-may-be-one-of-no-skilling-in-regard-to-essential-human-virtue-ethics/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humanities</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalThinking</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/VirtueEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VirtueEthics</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Deskilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deskilling</span></a></p>