I see two problems here.
1: Our bus is racing downhill off the cliff due to mismanagement.
2: Billionaires motivate self-proclaimed experts with (or without) arts, management or business degree who motivate kids to rush to the controls to "save the world", always on the hype, today AI. They never allow experts to handle the issues.
What expert, you ask?
Those who know the warnings about an anthropomorphic illusion of thinking machines (Turing, Weizenbaum), not understanding informatics (Bush, Licklider, Engelbart, Nelson), worshipping science (Neumann, Szilard) and forgetting that civilization is not given but must be built within each and every member (Asimov, Postman).
And that even conscious actions without the big picture is futile (Aaron Swartz, Edward Snowden).
When in real life you see an accident, you step back, yell for a doctor, call for ambulance, because you know that without relevant knowledge, you can make all worse. With global crises (climate, pollution, ... now AI) every spectator rush to "provide their opinion and help".
One day the hype will be over, Gene Kranz returns: "Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing." I really hope there will still be anything to save.
My 2 cents.
2: Billionaires motivate self-proclaimed experts with (or without) arts, management or business degree who motivate kids to rush to the controls to "save the world", always on the hype, today AI. They never allow experts to handle the issues.
What expert, you ask?
Those who know the warnings about an anthropomorphic illusion of thinking machines (Turing, Weizenbaum), not understanding informatics (Bush, Licklider, Engelbart, Nelson), worshipping science (Neumann, Szilard) and forgetting that civilization is not given but must be built within each and every member (Asimov, Postman).
And that even conscious actions without the big picture is futile (Aaron Swartz, Edward Snowden).
When in real life you see an accident, you step back, yell for a doctor, call for ambulance, because you know that without relevant knowledge, you can make all worse. With global crises (climate, pollution, ... now AI) every spectator rush to "provide their opinion and help".
One day the hype will be over, Gene Kranz returns: "Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing." I really hope there will still be anything to save.
My 2 cents.
