dAIverse Minds

“The handful of very wealthy … tech bros are not in a position to understand the needs of humanity at large,” [Prof. Emily M. Bender] bluntly argued.

“You can have all the good intentions in the world, but you’re not going to get very far until there’s some regulation that protects the rights that the profit motive runs roughshod over,” Bender dropped another truth bomb.

This very much echoes what I posted about a while back on Yanis Varoufakis’s newly coined technofeudalism: https://lnkd.in/gGekMQ_M

As I wrote then: My personal take is we cannot rely on the benevolence and philanthropy of a select few to guide and shape the future of humanity. Even if they genuinely start from a place of good and nobel intentions, the potential for corruption, having that sort of power, is simply too great.