Thought - Post-Bubble Accounting

I do think the AI financial bubble will ultimately burst but it's an increasingly hard one to have great faith in as a motive force for change around the technologies involved. Seems like so many of our governments have so completely committed themselves to the ethical abyss of miraculous AI growth that even when it proves to be a false hope they'll be completely unable to reflect on what they either ignored, allowed or encouraged as part of it. Deepfakes, faux-social LLMs, abandonment of education, erosion of privacy, consent, labour rights etc. It'll be a world of Tony Blairs in the aftermath, leaders reviled for their bad choices but so fortified in the reactive defences to their failure that they'll do nothing, change nothing and reflect on nothing.What reaction to that might work? Not sure. Certainly though a ground up and unyielding assertion of the harms done and the choices made around them would be something. Start with the training data, the indifference to consent,…