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The Coders Bias and Sociocultural Impacts
Why believing “everything is code” blinds us to what makes us human, and limits the future of AI and technology.
Franco sits in the dim light of the evening in his condo. The three screens glowing. To him, the world seems like a series of puzzles just waiting to be solved. Love is an algorithm, politics is data, even grief could be mapped if the right code could be written. It’s not arrogance or ego. It is the result of years of writing code, bending and twisting complex systems into logic. Having seen the wonders of what can be done with code.
Today, the coders tell us a world of abundance awaits us. That we will have plenty and a techno-utopia awaits. The algorithms will solve for all. I have come to call this Coders Bias, much like confirmation bias. We all have biases. They are lenses that shape how we see the world and interpret reality, created through myth-making and storytelling.
With regard to Coders Bias it is like wearing glasses that only show you numbers. One can see the numbers, patterns, structures, but there is no colour, emotion or story. The deeper entrenched into this bias, one only sees a flat outline of the world, of life, mistaking the outline of the whole picture of being human.
