James GleickMay 4, 2023

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 it’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

Show threadJan de Vries
@JamesGleick And the problem with that way of thinking is: if there are less people who are able to buy stuff, the profits of big corporations will become very small. The secret behind todays relative wealth is the spread of wealth over a big number of people. But it’s a the question if those big greedy corporations can remind themselves of that…
May 5, 2023 at 6:49amWeb