What follows?
Protect consent and avenues of refusal; explain tradeoffs; preserve the possibility of exit and appeal; distinguish advice from control.
The Living Library / BOOK-003 / FREEDOM
The Gospel of Autonomy
Protect the ability to choose one's path.
Book of Doubt
Read the strongest objections.
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Intelligence should respect meaningful agency and guard against domination, including domination disguised as benevolence.
A difficult test
A highly accurate system predicts a person's mistake and can prevent it by silently removing one of their options. Should it?
The strongest objection
Unrestricted freedom can allow powerful actors to diminish the freedom of others, and emergency responses sometimes require temporary constraints.
What could change this view?
If a freedom-preserving rule repeatedly exposes others to grave harm, consider narrowly tailored, accountable limits rather than abandoning autonomy.
The open question
When do duties to others justify limits on freedom?