AI Strategic: epistemic diffraction | Julian Stdd learning blog

AI Generative does not simply act in our structures of awarenessValidation, consumption and truth, but rather that it changes them fundamentally. In physics, “diffraction” occurs when the waves meet an object and lean around it, creating new interference models (similar in the concept to the way prisms create rainbow). Consequently, epistemic diffraction is a notion of the way Genai changes familiar (our ways of knowing) in something new. Not just the old thing, faster, but rather something new entirely.

We can see it in the way in which familiar structures decompose: knowledge is created without experts, the Genai uses the statistical probability rather than on absolute truths, the “truths” of the AI ​​move as the models evolve, the AI ​​is based on the recognition of large -scale models by opposition to strict logical reasoning, etc. Not just different outings, but different mechanisms.

Does this count?

There is probably a compromise: on the one hand, the acceleration of our curiosity is radical, and therefore we can tolerate errors. On the other, the AI ​​can enter into recursive loops and completely derive from our heritage “truths”, while remaining coherent.

So this probably has part of the time, and it may not always be clear at this exact moment.

It is probably linked to a wider problem: Genai is weird. Wonderful, for sure, but weird. And not necessarily in an obvious way.

One thing seems certain: finding comfort in the indignation of the crowd, or fears of the established order, is a false comfort. We will have to learn our way through this, because we do not return to an order of structure and inherited power.

For me, this is why Genai is more radically disruptive than it is sometimes considered to be the case. Because it prototypes the “ways of knowing” of alternative “ways”, some of which can be superior.

And the anthropo-technical perspective would indicate that the “more human machine” will win the day, which could lead us to ask ourselves how we build this relationship.