Imagine if in 2007, Countrywide said “Mortgage Backed Securities are not only a novel product with mysterious features that even we don’t understand, they also are intended to take away your job, control your dishwasher, replace your friends, and Christopher Hitchens is in love with one of them”
i do think ai is something that has obvious use cases, especially in tech, and those will manifest eventually in modest to moderate productivity gains. but the "ai in everything" pitch is stupid, people are right* to despise it, and politicians are committing malpractice if they don't capitalize
Tom Pepinsky
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NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice.
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LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
