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I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

I mean…or we could just pay people? I am hard line anti. I’ve never used Siri. I LOVE tech. I HATE automation. There doesn’t seem to be a place for people who (like Dr. Ian Malcom) take the time to ask “should we do this?” And after much study and rumination come up with: no. We should not.

Why wouldn’t you ask Siri to set a timer for when you are supposed to take the cookies out of the oven? What is served by not doing that?

Why would you need to do that though? I have two timers built into my kitchen as well as a couple others close at hand. I can push a button on the oven I put the cookies into in one easy move. My phone (expensive and fragile) doesn’t need to be near food prep.

I don’t have any of those, and I can do this when my hands are full or dirty.

I should never have even engaged. Because now I’m distracted by the idea that your kitchen doesn’t have a microwave with a built in timer and losing sight of how shocked you were that someone wouldn’t use tech to do the simple tasks that they already have a routine for.

Man you are way too hung up on this example. People usually adopt a new tech into their daily routine when it changes their life enough to bother. If you find a phone useful in the kitchen that’s great but you maybe need to think that for other people it’s simply not needed.

Also your op was about AI not timers. Why would I use the plagiarism pollution machine to help me? What can it do for my life that is worth the cost of communities not having enough water or poor Black folks not having decent air to breathe? Lots of stuff is useful, but there are costs with AI.