What price, Freedom?

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Journalists think they have the right to decide what is newsworthy, how people should read it, at what depth and so on.    

Musicians think they know what music is, how a listener should feel when they listen to a piece, how they should connect to the meaning.

Doctors think they have control over life itself, that they know how disease progresses, and how people should live.

Designers think they have the right to direct how something unravels, how it should be put together, how it should be experienced.

Society thinks it has the right to control individuals, dictate how they should live, when they should be free, when they should conform, because society knows what’s good for individuals.

Exercising the privilege of authority is violence, not benevolence. Dressing it up in pretty clothes does not make it knowledge.

I may stand in line, I may have to click what you want me to click, I may have to endure whatever you call art, music, and the like; but do not delude yourself that left to my own devices, I would exercise my free will to applaud your efforts to tell me how I or anyone else, should learn or live.

That is the freedom that AI gives to individuals, in many spheres of life. But like all freedoms, it comes at a price. What is that price? And are we aware we are paying it? But as individuals, we have always been fighting for our freedom and paying for that freedom with bondage of a different kind.