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podcast friday
Jan. 10th, 2025 07:29 am It's a busy week—Cool Zone Media is at the Consumer Electronics Show, which means that I get hours and hours of my favourite kind of content—not-sober people making fun of AI. God I love it. There's so much of it, though, and it'll take me awhile to wade through.
In the meantime, here is an older episode from Tech Won't Save Us: "Maybe We Should Destroy AI with Ali Alkhatib." It's based on a post Alkhatib made last June that you can read if you're not a podcast person. He makes a very clear cost-benefit analysis.
1) No one asked for this
2) No one wants it
3) In cases where the harm outweighs the good, we should destroy this technology rather than learn to adapt it or try to somehow force it to be ethical.
He offers the parallel of a restaurant that poisons its customers. Such a restaurant would be shut down. We have legal mechanisms for shutting it down. When we have a lot of clear harm being done by technology, we should be able to do the same.
In the meantime, here is an older episode from Tech Won't Save Us: "Maybe We Should Destroy AI with Ali Alkhatib." It's based on a post Alkhatib made last June that you can read if you're not a podcast person. He makes a very clear cost-benefit analysis.
1) No one asked for this
2) No one wants it
3) In cases where the harm outweighs the good, we should destroy this technology rather than learn to adapt it or try to somehow force it to be ethical.
He offers the parallel of a restaurant that poisons its customers. Such a restaurant would be shut down. We have legal mechanisms for shutting it down. When we have a lot of clear harm being done by technology, we should be able to do the same.
