AI comes for the job market, security, and prosperity

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/27/1121475/editors-letter-security-issue-mat-honan/

by insane_dreamer • 11 months ago

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drweevil• 11 months ago

“No one my age wants AI. No one is excited about it,” she told me of her high-school-age peers.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was telling he US Federal Reserve’s board of governors...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Axios he believes...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said ...
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke told staff ...
Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, recently said ...

Does this feel at all like a democratic process? We can claim to be a democracy, but functionally it's clear that we are not living in one when all the most important decisions are being made by CEOs.

And finally: "It would be naïve to think we are going back to a world without AI."

Why is that? Shouldn't we, as a democratic society, be able to decide whether we want to adopt any technology, especially one as destructive as AI? (h/t to Neal Stephenson and his Seveneves, where he explores this topic under the moniker 'Amistics').

AI comes for the job market, security, and prosperity

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