Via Maroussia Lévesque: The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It)
The idea of “analog privilege” describes how people at the apex of the social order secure manual overrides from ill-fitting, mass-produced AI products and services. Instead of dealing with one-size-fits-all AI systems, they mobilize their economic or social capital to get special personalized treatment. In the register of tailor-made clothes and ordering off menu, analog privilege spares elites from the reductive, deterministic and simplistic downsides of AI systems.
Resonates with me this week in multiple discussions about how “human touch” will become a luxury in an AI era