The reviews for “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” on AI have come in from award-winning writers at the GeekWire Summit, and they’re not great.
“Technology can solve certain problems, but I think the biggest problems that we face are not problems that have technological solutions,” Chiang said in response. “Climate change probably does not have a technological solution. Wealth inequality does not have a technological solution. Most of these are problems of political will. … And so Marc Andreessen’s manifesto is a prime example of ignoring all of these other realities.”
Tech is a tool. Powerful tech in the hands of unethical people will be used unethically. Tech doesn’t magically do the “right thing” as if it has any volition.