The tech has been around in a serious material sense for… two or three years at best? In the midst of climate change, rampant spread of war globally, COVID aftershocks, fascism breaking out all over Europe and East Asia, the next election just being an absolute shitshow…
AI seems like such a non-issue in the grand scheme of things.
People becoming transvestigators for AI will definitely hurt neurodivergent people. If you’re constantly on the lookout for unusual communication (especially a flat affect), you’ll end up dismissing disabled people.
This is not a non-issue, but of course, like with all things, the actual issue is entirely social and not because of a bazinga robot uprising.
“Computer Says No” as an excuse to deny people social services on an ostensibly meritocratic basis is a real problem, but it is one that already exists.
And while statistical bias is easy to echo with AI, its black box nature is traitorous. For instance, the UK home office inadvertently began flagging passports from Albania, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria as participants in “sham marriages”. This created enormous volumes of extra paperwork for no discernible benefit.
Rather than being racist, you mostly just establish yourself as unreliable.
If only jobs like this could reliably be automated. But as someone who works in automation, I can tell you a whole litany of reasons why they aren’t going to achieve that any time soon.
If nothing else, these industries simply aren’t set up to interface with AI in a functional capacity. So much of a creative career is predicted on who you know that guys like Zach Snyder will never be seriously threatened by an AI director. So much of a physician’s job is social rather than analytical that no amount of WebMD wish casting will replace them.
The tech has been around in a serious material sense for… two or three years at best? In the midst of climate change, rampant spread of war globally, COVID aftershocks, fascism breaking out all over Europe and East Asia, the next election just being an absolute shitshow…
AI seems like such a non-issue in the grand scheme of things.
This is not a non-issue, but of course, like with all things, the actual issue is entirely social and not because of a bazinga robot uprising.
“Computer Says No” as an excuse to deny people social services on an ostensibly meritocratic basis is a real problem, but it is one that already exists.
And while statistical bias is easy to echo with AI, its black box nature is traitorous. For instance, the UK home office inadvertently began flagging passports from Albania, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria as participants in “sham marriages”. This created enormous volumes of extra paperwork for no discernible benefit.
Rather than being racist, you mostly just establish yourself as unreliable.
Watch the video.
If and when it starts replacing huge swaths of creative, programming, legal and medical jobs it will very suddenly become an issue.
The enshittification will be bad, but it will also inhibit large scale adoption.
Case in point, the guy who tricked Chevy into selling him a Tahoe for $1.
Or the Dallas Judge who prohibited AI generated brief in the Fifth Circuit on the grounds that they hallucinated cases.
If only jobs like this could reliably be automated. But as someone who works in automation, I can tell you a whole litany of reasons why they aren’t going to achieve that any time soon.
If nothing else, these industries simply aren’t set up to interface with AI in a functional capacity. So much of a creative career is predicted on who you know that guys like Zach Snyder will never be seriously threatened by an AI director. So much of a physician’s job is social rather than analytical that no amount of WebMD wish casting will replace them.