Rejecting AI

“This is the insidious lie at the core of the AI movement. It disguises itself as a vision of progress and change, of a bright future, while at bottom resting on the idea that neither progress nor change are meaningfully possible and the future must always be just a dismal logical extension of the present. Humanity can't decide not to do the stupid thing; all we can do is accommodate ourselves to the stupid thing's inevitability and hope to sand the sharp edges off the stupid thing's extremities. We can't imagine a path into the future from a vision of what we hope the future can be like; we can only select from the short and shrinking menu of futures made possible by every moment before this one. Hey, don't look at us, we didn't chart this course. The AI can either be an unchecked genocidal horror or it can be a checked genocidal horror. Your pick.” What If We Could Have a Future