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I spent the last several days writing this. When I started, I felt like maybe the title was a bit of a hyperbole, even though I feel like my point is well argued. But then again, you have people working in this industry saying that they are building a weapon of mass destruction that could […]

The term "AI" is like a miasma. It's hard to contain or define. For this particular exercise, I define through five properties. It has an agenda, which is filtered through a promise of what it can do, propelled forward by a collaborative political system, put in place by a specific business […]

I look at how a technology like Eli Whitney's cotton gin had an effect on slavery in the United States. The tool, it can be argued, is not political. But in context, it is a destructive force (most historians point to the cotton gin as a major reason that the South became dependent on the […]

The difference with "AI" technology is that it doesn't just do one thing well. Even if it fulfills its job as "software engineer intern," there are so many problems with the tool itself (propaganda, spam, CSAM, mental health, etc...). Those problems should alone give pause. But in the wider […]