{"id":76993,"date":"2026-08-05T02:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/democracy-is-at-stake-when-foolish-humans-bet-on-machines-being-intelligent-rafael-behr\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T02:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:56:29","slug":"democracy-is-at-stake-when-foolish-humans-bet-on-machines-being-intelligent-rafael-behr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/democracy-is-at-stake-when-foolish-humans-bet-on-machines-being-intelligent-rafael-behr\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent | Rafael Behr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need an enlightened US president to make the case for global AI regulation. Donald Trump is the exact opposite of what is needed<\/p>\n<p>When I am woken by the sound of my dog whining, I understand that she is hungry and wants me to get up. When my alarm clock goes off, I don\u2019t consider its needs. It is following an instruction to rouse me at a certain time but it doesn\u2019t care if I stay in bed. It doesn\u2019t try to get me up by other means. The dog, on the other hand, will go to plan B. She barks.<\/p>\n<p>This capacity for autonomous action was once a difference between animals and machines. AI has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/19\/could-ai-be-conscious\">blurred the line<\/a>. Advanced models devise their own strategies to reach a goal. The task might be defined by a human master, but the machine weighs its options for delivery. It can make its own choices. Given rules, it can break them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/05\/ai-regulation-donald-trump-artificial-intelligence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need an enlightened US president to make the case for global AI regulation. Donald Trump is the exact opposite of what is needed When I am woken by the sound of my dog whining, I understand that she is hungry and wants me to get up. When my alarm clock goes off, I don\u2019t &#8230; <a title=\"Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent | Rafael Behr\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/democracy-is-at-stake-when-foolish-humans-bet-on-machines-being-intelligent-rafael-behr\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent | Rafael Behr\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}