Natascha’s Reviews > Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI > Status Update
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"One potential guardrail is to train computers to be aware of their own fallibility. As Socrates taught, being able to say 'I don't know' is an essential step on the path to wisdom. And this is true of computer wisdom no less than of human wisdom. The first lesson that every algorithm should lear is that it might make mistakes." p300
— Aug 17, 2026 12:05AM
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"An out-of-control AI, just like an out-of-control virus puts in danger humans in every nation. No human collective – whether a tribe, a nation or the entire species – stands to benefit from letting power shift from humans to algorithms." p386
— Aug 30, 2026 11:23PM
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"How would we have to change in order to adapt, survive and hopefully even flourish in this starling new world?" p226
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"Democracy is never a matter of all or nothing. It is a continuum, (...)" p146
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"AI systems know how to find and process data better than flesh-and-blood bureaucrats, and AI is also acquiring the ability to compose stories better than most humans." p68
— Jul 27, 2026 12:07AM
Natascha
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"Many of the problem of our twenty-first-century information networks – like biased algorithms that mislabel people or rigid protocols that ignore human needs and feelings – are not new problems of the computer age. They are quintessential bureaucratic problems that have existed long before anyone even dreamed of computers." p50
— Jul 20, 2026 12:20AM