CONCEPT
The Three Biases
Morozov's catalog of the biases AGI-ism embeds in AI systems and the cultures that adopt them: market bias, adaptation bias, efficiency bias.
Morozov's 2023 essay identified three specific biases structurally embedded in contemporary AI development and deployment. Each bias operates at the level of design decisions, optimization objectives, and institutional assumption — not as external critiques but as constitutive features of the systems and the cultures that produce them. Together they form the ideological substrate of what Morozov has called Panglossian neoliberalism and its AI-specific expression, AGI-ism.
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The market bias is the assumption that private-sector actors will consistently outperform public ones in developing and deploying intelligent systems. This assumption justifies the current institutional arrangement — venture-funded corporations pursuing AI development under commercial logic — as not merely one arrangement among others but the optimal one. The bias is particularly striking given the historical record: the foundational technologies of contemporary AI, from neural network research to the computational infrastructure on which training depends, were developed substantially through public investment. The private sector inherited the base and now deploys market-superiority rhetoric to prevent public governance of