How to Hate AI

I read a blog post recently saying that it was ok to hate AI. While I agree to some extent, I think it was missing some key points about how to hate AI. It’s easy to just hate something you don’t like. We as humans have a natural propensity to hate or dislike things we are not familiar with. The problem is that this approach is akin to putting your head in the sand or screaming at the clouds; it doesn’t actually help anyone. Whether you like it or not, AI is out of the bag. Pandora’s box is open. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Yes we might see this ludicrous bubble pop and see realistic costs to run these frontier models, but the technology itself has just advanced too far. You can’t just shut it down, no matter how hard you try. If it’s not OpenAI or Anthropic it will be a nation state government. Due to this single fact, the more responsible thing to do is reconcile how we are going to coexist with this technology. One can’t help but consider how this situation is reminiscent…