I hear a lot of folks shaming us people who are shaming people for using artificial intelligence. There is a lot of concern that if you shame young people, or other people who aren’t familiar with the inner workings of the technology and business surrounding AI, you will do some damage to their confidence and feelings, or I guess the market.
The concern is fascinating. I just can’t see how the argument applies to AI, compute, the Internet, or any other technology that strives to be ubiquitous in our lives. Why do I have to carry the weight of hurting people’s feelings for using a particular technology or not? It seems like the world, at least the one I live in, people should carry the load of their decisions, and be accountable for the impact of shaming, caring about it, or not caring about it and just brushing it off-—it kind of is how things work.
I guess I’d have to ask, if I can’t shame people right now at the early stages of AI, at which point is shaming and acceptable response? Once consensus is reach that artificial intelligence is having a negative impact on our work, can I shame you then? Or maybe this is about no accountability? Because AI is an excellent accountability sink.
