What’s really good and bad in AI, explained with superheroes

One month ago Nina Schick, “sovereign AI strategist”, published on Twitter a long list of “things AI has done so far”, all allegedly good, to advance or strenghten seven vital sectors of society, namely: Medicine, Scientific Discoveries, Environment, Clean Energy, Transport and, last but not least, Learning and “Jobs and Growth”.As far as I can tell, all the accomplishments Schick lists for the first five sectors are big, actually useful stuff, and all share a really important characteristic: they all prove that AI can do stuff that’s really beneficial FOR all people... when it’s used by competent professionals, not students faking homework, “content creators” famous for being famous, trolls and fraudsters of every kind, or people whose only real problem is they don’t talk enough with other humans. Every item of that part of that list proves that universal access to AI is, as a minimum, not necessary for real progress. What AI has already done and will keep doing TO the masses,…