until they are forced to do so by customers or by law
Neither of those things is ever going to happen. AI is the goose laying the golden eggs; there isn't going to be sufficient political will to significantly regulate it.
Consumers like it too much to quit. They don't quit social media either, despite proven present harms; not in large enough numbers to cause them to make meaningful changes.
The focus is going to remain on getting features out as fast as possible, to seem indispensable to both of those sets of people. The leadership will tell themselves that if they don't, someone else will.
Don't wait for the AI companies or politicians to save us. We're going to have to figure out how to protect ourselves. The start is to avoid it individually as much as we can, but it's going to take even more.
> We're going to have to figure out how to protect ourselves. The start is to avoid it individually as much as we can, but it's going to take even more.
Collective problems require coordinated action. Individual boycotts won't cut it.
People are stuck in a weird loop of complacency and learned helplessness, based on the idea, their "democracy" would see to it all problems get solved satisfactorily without them engaging at all.
That's never been true really, only the scale of problems wasn't that huge. Now, where the problems get the upper hand, people are confused how those stay and compound.
The idea of "boycott" is utterly defunct. Pretending, AI would never reach nor surpass humans anyway is patently absurd in contradicting the billions poured into it to achieve exactly that and the first already replaced by AI being those professions long thought to be the intellectual pinnacle of humanity.
> Consumers like it too much to quit. They don't quit social media either, despite proven present harms; not in large enough numbers to cause them to make meaningful changes.
That's more "addiction" than "like", hence recent lawsuits.
Neither of those things is ever going to happen. AI is the goose laying the golden eggs; there isn't going to be sufficient political will to significantly regulate it.
Consumers like it too much to quit. They don't quit social media either, despite proven present harms; not in large enough numbers to cause them to make meaningful changes.
The focus is going to remain on getting features out as fast as possible, to seem indispensable to both of those sets of people. The leadership will tell themselves that if they don't, someone else will.
Don't wait for the AI companies or politicians to save us. We're going to have to figure out how to protect ourselves. The start is to avoid it individually as much as we can, but it's going to take even more.