Cory DoctorowThis profile of me in *The New Yorker* came out really well, if I do say so myself:
Charlie Stross@pluralistic The problem with AI is that it doesn't suffer from Baumol's Cost Disease, so there's a strong incentive in capitalism to use it to replace labour in previously-non-automatable areas. Even though it's highly fallible, and using it as an excuse to cut labour costs means abolishing the capability to detect when it's silently running off the rails.
arescrappy ai will not only replace labor, it will replace capable ai
a capable self-driver costs billions and decades, and the ip is closely guarded
scrappy upstarts will tweak free shit from github and call it good enough
@pluralistic @ares This is of course an argument for strong state regulators with venom glands and fangs, never mind teeth, to stop this sort of future from coming about.
Unfettered capitalism will destroy the human species, never mind the planet.