These 4 questions are the antidote to AI hype

Ohmygod I’m still writing about AI on my political philosophy blogI wasn’t expecting to write a post like this so late into the AI bubble, which I wrote about in March, but after recent AI news stories I felt obligated to post this. Hopefully it helps someone make a little more sense of the world. It’ll be the first part in an ongoing series titled “Take the antidote.”As I’ve said multiple times before, the media has played a substantial role in inflating the AI bubble, mainly by parroting marketing claims of AI companies and fomenting a sense of dread and inevitability that recently has started to backfire. Still, Big Tech persists in invoking the specter of AI creating a permanent underclass, that politicians like Bernie Sanders have been nudged into taking seriously (I recently ranted about this). However, the evolving economics of AI have started to weaken near-term labor displacement claims. Even Sam Altman felt compelled to walk back immediate job displacement claims, earlier…

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