Artificial Intelligence and natural stupidity
Artificial Intelligence and natural stupidity
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/op-ed/artificial-intelligence-and-natural-stupidity.phtml
Publish Date: 2026-06-13 04:30:00
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he bill still awaits Congress approval but President Javier Milei has proposed granting legal status to companies peopled (or “non-peopled”) by creations of Artificial Intelligence. In just three weeks time the United States which Milei so venerates will be celebrating in the throes of the World Cup now underway the 250th anniversary of a Declaration of Independence founded on the principle of “No taxation without representation” (a jamboree which the President plans to join) – since these future robot companies will presumably be paying taxes, does this mean that any number of avatars could be given the right to vote?
Without looking any further ahead, the robot solution could be applied to some of this week’s news ítems. Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni has shown so much natural stupidity in fumbling the sworn statement of assets finally presented in midweek that some might feel that his replacement by Artificial Intelligence would be an improvement. Adorni’s main line of defence has been to use the recent “fiscal innocence” legislation to cover up his tracks retroactively – that law has formed part of a slide in revenues which has led to the cherished fiscal surplus becoming increasingly precarious with false savings and floating debt soaring (also belittled by ex-president Mauricio Macri as “bad quality” by ignoring the importance of infrastructure for capital investments). Milei has just increased the pressure on that surplus by giving ground to the universities over academic pay with the erosion of his popularity (for which Adorni is only one of the causes) becoming politically unsustainable. But then why have universities at all if not even necessary to be human to be a company executive, never mind the university degrees flaunted by most (although not all) CEOs?
Yet capitulation to robots is always going to be a hard sell. Already a critic of the totalitarian potential of AI, the influential intellectual Yuval…
