Turtles all the way down: Why AI's cult of objectivity is dangerous, and how we can be better

This article was contributed by Slater Victoroff, founder and CTO of Indico Data. There is a belief, built out of science fiction and a healthy fear of math, that AI is some infallible judge of objective truth. We tell ourselves that AI algorithms divine truth from data, and that there is no truth higher than the righteous residual of a regression test. For others, the picture is simple: logic is objective, math is logic, AI is math; thus AI is objective. This is not a benign belief.