Niklas quoted The AI Con by Alex Hanna
A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls …
Just because you've identified a social problem doesn't mean LLMs or any other kind of so-called Al are a solution. When someone says so, the problem is usually better understood by widening the lens, looking at it in its broader context. As Shankar Narayan, the Tech and Liberty Project director for ACLU of Washington, asked regarding biased recidivism prediction systems: Why are we asking who is most likely to reoffend rather than what do these people need to give them the best chance of not reoffending? Likewise, when someone suggests a robo-doctor, robo-therapist, or robo-teacher, we should ask: Why isn't there enough money for public clinics, mental health counseling, and schools? Text synthesis machines can't fill holes in the social fabric. We need people, political will, and resources.