• HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    The automobile has been a net benefit to society

    Automobiles are also in practice quite harmful to public health because their addictive and user-lock-in effects and the resulting total lack of exercise. US Americans are mostly not aware of that because the notion to walk half an hour to get somewhere is already completely alien to them. Like somebody who first drinks two bottles of beer in the morning, in order to barely function, can possibly not understand that somebody can just drink whater when they are thirsty.

    AI as it is forced on people today will probably be worse for both critical thinking, and social cognitive abilities.

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      And cars were worse for physical health yet here we are.

      I suspect you may be part of the crowd I’m addressing this to but progress is progress and you can’t uninvent shit and you can’t predict adoption.

      As it stands “AI” is here to stay and no movement of luddites is going to change that. Globally “we” are saying it’s valuable.

      What we are lacking right now is control over the speed and direction.

      Going back to the car analogy this is why licenses exist, and registration, and laws. This too will come with AI only when the problem becomes so big or so dangerous to necessitate it. I suspect we will be there soon. Youth unemployment is fucked everywhere and only getting worse.