The Kids Fear AI
Clothesline by Mark Tennant In the last two weeks, I have seen clips floating around of approximately three separate commencement speakers at universities receiving mass booing and backlash for praising the merits of AI. Each of these speakers highlights the glorious new heights this technology will supposedly bring us to, and insists that young people stop living in fear of new technology and hurry up to board the train, so as not to miss it. Each of them has been cut off midsentence by verbal disagreement. I am not saying that it is right or respectful to boo a speaker, but I do think that this trend reveals truthful opinions about the state of the nation and the development of AI technologies. "AM, whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better." -Ellison's I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream AI has been marketed as the "next big thing." The technology that will cure cancer, end restrictive ...
