It's so sad that this AI movement never even considers solving problems for humans. They solve problems for companies. There are so many problems in the world that tech can solve. Heck, do you have to look far to see how disproportionate even the tech is evolving? But we decide to solve problems that only companies care about. Replace workers with more "efficient" force. I think people would like their jobs thank you very much. Somehow, those startups are not solving inaccessible education, terrible healthcare, misinformation, bias, pollution, global warming, safety, class inequality. Quite the opposite. Many AI companies aim to make those problems even worse.
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 assumpt
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Is there a way for A.I. to do something other than sharpen the knife blade of capitalism?