‘Nazi AI, draw me a Jew. Hey, why is everyone angry at me?’

We're being taken over by electronic fools

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I really didn’t want to write about Artificial Intelligence this week, or indeed any week, ever again. But every day, often several times a day, AI relentlessly keeps popping up in my face, determined to present me with new and surprising examples how dumb as fuck it is.

Earlier this week, the BBC Radio Four new programme ‘Today’ invited an old-school tech bro into the studio to ask him polite questions about whether the UK government should be wary about the rapacious advancement of AI.

By “old-school” I mean one of the co-founders and investors of various online businesses that survived the 1990s bubble and the Y2K embarrassment. He wasn’t smooching at the US presidential inauguration, for example, but probably has the mobile numbers for everyone who attended that event and yet chooses not to ring any them for personal reasons. So basically the guy was insanely wealthy and out of touch but not a complete cunt.

His view was that we are letting ourselves be blinded by the bad things that AI companies get up to and failing to notice the amazing advances the tech can bring to humanity, especially in the field of healthcare. He worried that legislating to restrain the former would have the knock-on effect of hobbling innovation in the latter. Legislators, he said, should focus on deregulating, not regulating.

Of course, he would say that, being insanely wealthy and out of touch. He’s not one of the billions whose livelihoods are at stake, or living in parts of the world about to burn to a crisp by AI’s energy wastage. He is not among the millions whose intellectual property is being routinely stolen by rich tech bros who can afford to pay for it from their back pockets. So maybe he is a bit of a cunt.

Naturally I was shouting at the radio, telling him that nobody is regulating to stop AI from improving healthcare outcomes and that he is just using that as a misleading non-existent scenario in order to maximise his investments in the eviller areas of the AI industry and why wasn’t the interviewer shouting this at him instead of me having to do it for him.

Ah, you have to laugh. The humour is in the irony.