Anyone noticed that when folks get even a little specific about the supposed benefits of "AI" the call outs are frequently "curing disease" (sometimes specifically cancer and/or Alzheimer's) and "addressing climate change"? I'm hearing it enough to wonder where these talking points come from.
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It's part and parcel of that annoying trope of having to pay lip-service to the supposed up-sides of "AI" even in reporting about the actual (documented, really happening) harms & risks of further harm.
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I think the case for "AI" helping with medical research might come from the work on protein folding--crucially a supervised machine learning project with extremely high quality data behind it--but I've never even seen the case re climate change expanded.
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
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