Google DeepMind CEO Says we don’t have much time to prepare for the ‘new human era’Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, is calling on students and Americans to 'lean in' on AI, which he claims is an inevitability of the future. There is some genuine advice here: mechanization and digitization did drastically change how we work, live, and operate. And I won't discount how AI may have its application to modern society. There is, however, a big disconnect between what the corporatists want and what the average American wants. Gallup finds that as people use it more, optimism toward AI has decreased even among Gen Z. As an aside, for the past two or three years, school districts have been pushing AI. Even if current AI tools can't do my job as well as I can, even if it wasn't destructive for the environment and crippling to poor rural communities, it is a disservice to expect my students to pour their labor and their brain power into my work, and not meet them with my own humanity. It…
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