mips_avatarDec 3

Everyone in Seattle hates AI

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html

Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready

A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.

Show threadsomekyle2Dec 3
Anecdotally, lots of people in SF tech hate AI too. _Most_ people out of tech do.
But, enough of the people in tech have their future tied to AI that there are lot of vocal boosters.
Show threadtptacekDec 3
It is not at all my experience working in local government (that is, in close contact with everybody else paying attention to local government) that non-tech people hate AI. It seems rather the opposite.
Show threadwk_end

Managers everywhere love the idea of AI because it means they can replace expensive and inefficient human workers with cheap automation.

Among actual people (i.e. not managers) there seems to be a bit of a generation gap - my younger friends (Gen Z) are almost disturbingly enthusiastic about entrusting their every thought and action to ChatGPT; my older friends (young millennials and up) find it odious.

Dec 3 at 8:10pmWeb
Show threadtptacekDec 3

The median age of people working local politics is probably 55, and I've met more people (non-family, that is) over 70 doing this than in anything else, and all of them are (a) using AI for stuff and (b) psyched to see any new application of AI being put to use (for instance, a year or so ago, I used 4o to classify every minute spent in our village meetings according to broad subjects).

Or, drive through Worth and Bridgeview in IL, where all the middle eastern people in Chicago live, and notice all the AI billboards. Not billboards for AI, just, billboards obviously made with GenAI.

I think it's just not true that non-tech people are especially opposed to AI.