Show threadA.J. FishSep 9, 2023
@KathyReid #AICapture is quite possible. The news site The Information reported at item in January and I've lost the link, but a startup founder was forced to give his seed money back to the venture capitalists. He had to do that because he WASN'T working on AI. In other words, it's this movement to make Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) happen by getting more companies (and countries and states) to throw money at honing their A.I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
AI winter - Wikipedia

Kathy ReidSep 2, 2023

What I'm finding interesting in the #AI #AIhype gestalt at the moment is the yoking of AI use cases to increased productivity, creating the promise that AI "unlocks" benefits - productivity, capital, labour, time - that are somehow latent and present - but unattainable - without AI.

Take for example the push by developers in #NSW, #Australia, urging councils to use #AI for more rapid #planning approval, positing that AI tools can help in the design process so that plans submitted to councils are more "approvable".

I'm not sure if I agree with this framing. Could AI tools unlock all these benefits? Possibly. But whose interests do they serve? The developers'? The councils'? The communities affected by the planning applications?

He who builds the model shapes how, where, and why it is used.

What I expect to see next is "partnerships" where people with a vested interest in automating / AI-fying a process co-fund its build. Will developers build the AI tools used by councils?

Are we seeing the rise of #AIcapture in a similar vein to #RegulatoryCapture

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/nsw-planning-needs-ai-to-respond-to-housing-crisis/102805826

NSW Planning minister told 'zero' chance of addressing housing crisis, urged to adopt AI technology

Experts say AI tools could help NSW to battle the mounting pressure on supplying housing, at a time when the state is forecast to be 134,000 dwellings short of the population-based target.

ABC News