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Fully agree! Now: how do you do that with this generation of tech? Denying that there is utility in this space is not credible and will not work. Offering ethical, useful, interesting alternatives might.

The current approach to a lot of AI criticism suffers from the same flaws that our criticisms of social media did a generation ago, and will be exploited by the big companies similarly if we don’t learn and adapt. We did not stop Facebook and Twitter by saying “they’re bad, don’t use them”.

Ethical and sustainable are rhe key words here. And because it’s not, many people believe (rightfully so) that’s it’s not useful. Because if the current trend continues, we may be last generation that remembers a world that’s not perpetually on fire literally and figuratively.

Getting that wrong last time directly enabled a genocide and tbe global rise of facism.

You just did the "not all men" thing there for AI. AI has been a vague marketing term since 1956 when John McCarthy wanted to exclude Cybernetics from his summer camp. It's been regularly hyped ever since, and when people question the hype they get motte and baileyed like you just did.

there are so many things I could dream up to point AI at, (being a liberal arts nerd) the platforms, as you pointed out, are a good example of the inherent problem of "who is the architect?"