Have we made progress? Medicine—our capacity to keep a person healthier for longer—has progressed. Our ability to apply that capacity consistently across the population, less so. Energy—our capacity to power the needful within ecological limits—has progressed. But our ability to deploy that capacity flounders, and our idea of what the needful
Thank you for this piece! It felt resonant as around the same time I read this critique in the AINow Institute's 2023 landscape report: "Only once we stop seeing AI as synonymous with progress can we establish popular control over the trajectory of these technologies and meaningfully confront their serious social, economic, and political impacts."
Thank you for this piece! It felt resonant as around the same time I read this critique in the AINow Institute's 2023 landscape report: "Only once we stop seeing AI as synonymous with progress can we establish popular control over the trajectory of these technologies and meaningfully confront their serious social, economic, and political impacts."