Once again Ted Chiang has it exactly right. The immediate danger from #AI is not that it will become sentient and do whatever it wants. The danger is that it will do what itโ€™s being designed to do: help rich corporations destroy the working class in pursuit of ever-greater profits and thus concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

@JamesGleick Yes. Anything that allows companies to reap profits without employing people will do that.

Employing people will simply be " too expensive". (They'll still want you to buy their products though.)