Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the
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Is there a way for A.I. to do something other than sharpen the knife blade of capitalism?
Ted Chiang • Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker
ai is the one issue in our modern politics that feels representative of all that is bankrupt and ugly in the world. it’s an environmental issue [the substantial energy consumption for training and using these machines averages the energy consumption of what multiple american households would over the course of a year, emitting tens of thousands of... See more