Stop Blaming AI. Start Holding the People in Charge Accountable.

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The "Stop Bitching" Part

A lot of people are against AI. Blaming the tool instead of the people and entities who own, control and run it is the easy option, and it changes nothing. It directs anger at the thing you can see rather than at those making the decisions.

Those who benefit at society's expense have no reason to correct you. They stay out of view, collect the returns, and let the public argue with a technology that cannot be held to account.

That anger does not trouble those with media reach, political access and money. It does cost you something, though. It crowds out the uses of AI that would help people, and it leaves the decisions that actually matter to those who turn up to make them.

When people worry about AI and jobs, they usually mean something immediate: whether their employer will still need them, whether...

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