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danmcquillan

Daron Acemoglu wrote in Prospect magazine that AI can be pro-worker and help cure cancer but only if we focus on domain-specific models. The magazine just printed my letter refuting his claims and his backward-looking embrace of thoughtless tech. prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/l

AI’s backwards vision Daron Acemoglu (“AI’s biggest secret”, July) is right to describe the drive for artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a form of “bait and switch”. Unfortunately, by recommending domain-specific AI models, he does the same. All forms of neural network are innately opaque and will turn even “high quality data” into unreliable predictions. Rather than expanding human capabilities, AI relies on extracting people’s labour and using it to precaritise others. It’s already clear that the tighter we are “coupled together” with AI, the greater the degradation of critical thought and decision-making. None of Acemoglu’s alternative claims, from pro-worker AI to solving cancer, will emerge from this apparatus of mathematical dissimulation. His essay replaces dreams of AGI with dreams of productivity, a stance which only intensifies AI’s corrosive potential. We can see this in the UK, where the government’s obsession with growth has elevated AI above all social or environmental concerns. Regrettably, the links between AI’s maths and metrics and the historical eugenics movement resonate only too well in a political milieu focused on the total mobilisation of the nation and further marginalisation of the unproductive. (continues....)
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Alex Ștefănescu

@danmcquillan thank you so much for fighting back against this narrative and refuting its claims! I have a lot of appreciation for momentsof reckoning like these because those who firmly stand on principle have the most to lose, in terms of reputation and being pushed to the side.

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danmcquillan

@catileptic Hi Alex, thanks for your affirming comments. In solidarity.

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