Yes that is true but it doesn't have much to do with AI as it does with the entire economic system that underpins the sector. It's not just AI-futurists who have an impoverished view of humanity because of some particular belief about how intelligence works, reducing human beings to a bunch of signal and noise inputs underpins the design of every social media system, it's the reason why you can't get a human being on a phone if your Google account stops working, and so on.
An impoverished view of humanity whether it's true or not is the basis for the business models underpinning almost all activity in the industry so when those people turn their attention towards AI that is of course also what they see. If people really were to acknowledge that human beings are at the centre of technology then probably 90% of what's being built is unethical and anti-social in its very design.
An impoverished view of humanity whether it's true or not is the basis for the business models underpinning almost all activity in the industry so when those people turn their attention towards AI that is of course also what they see. If people really were to acknowledge that human beings are at the centre of technology then probably 90% of what's being built is unethical and anti-social in its very design.
It reminds me of a great article by Ted Chiang where he discussed this in the context of common fears of AI. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-dang...