AI, AI…Oh Image: Sophia Kunkel

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

–R. Buckminster Fuller

“AI” is not doing anything.

AI is not taking your job. AI is not stealing your words or images or personal information. AI is not controlling your mind, or your life, or the decisions you make. AI isn’t looking to wipe out humanity. AI is not doing…anything.

Then what (or who) is?

People. It’s just people. People made AI. People decide how to use it, where to use it, what to use it for, or whether to use it at all. It’s just…people. All the decisions and effects and consequences are the result of…choices and actions made by people.

Nothing about AI is inevitable. It’s just human choices. What you hear and see is just another inevitable cycle of capitalism as businesses trying to compete, get an edge, whatever. So what feels like breathless ‘progress’ is really just people wondering “how can I make a lot of money with this new thing?”.

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