Thomas Hobbes
philosopher · 4 mentions across 4 readings
In this course
Hobbes appears as a passing reference within discussions of power, sovereignty, and the social contract—particularly in contexts examining how cybernetics and control systems attempt to engineer or determine human behavior and society. The readings invoke Hobbes's framework of power and domination to critique how contemporary systems (algorithmic, economic, political) replicate older structures of control under new technological guises, suggesting that debates about AI governance are fundamentally extensions of Hobbesian questions about who commands obedience and through what means.
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