People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse::A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    How can having more tools to solve problems make things worse? I can’t think of any problem in my life that more tools and methods would work against solving it.

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      10 months ago

      “[Eli] Whitney believed that his cotton gin would reduce the demand for enslaved labor and would help hasten the end of southern slavery. Paradoxically, the cotton gin, a labor-saving device, helped preserve and prolong slavery in the United States for another 70 years.”

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      10 months ago

      How can having more tools to solve problems make things worse?

      Depends on who’s using it and for what purpose.

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      10 months ago

      Well, for one clearly this creates more mechanisms to exploit the poor. Especially if we chose to regulate as slowly as we have with other tech in the past.

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      10 months ago

      The AI is in the hands of interests who think you are the problem.

      (They don’t like me either.)