Wisdom of the Crowd: the idiosyncratic noise associated with each individual judgment is replaced by an average of that noise taken over a large number of responses, tempering the effect of the noise.
Pretty much the definition of AI
Bots to the narrative rescue!
Just saw your wiki post.
The problem not addressed, is the consciousness in the crowd.
Versus the algorithmic programs in the cloud.
One is subject to the observer effect and roll-of-the-dice[so to speak]
The other is subject to a determined and programmed fate.
Remember, the digital is always masquerading as - the other.
A smoking-hot-mirror; feeding off its host.
It starts out with the median that creates “the answer” and then, by applying artificial data collection and influences through social media/cell phones/etc. they change what becomes the “the answer” that slowly becomes what is accepted. That is where we are now… I agree- a smoking hot mirror feeding off its host.
I don’t know how we destroy the mirror, social media/cell phones, etc. but something has got to give. AI in itself isn’t bad… it is the controllers of the program that are anti-human.