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“Like many others, I have helped friends who were addicted to damaging drugs.
The media rarely accurates reflects the true nature of addiction. Addicts are,
more often than not, highly functioning and fit into society perfectly. You
could walk past them on the street and not know anything was wrong. But their
affliction is eating them from the inside out, destroying their capability,
cognition, and well-being. Still, they feel they need these substances to
survive and will do Olympic-level mental gymnastics to justify their
consumption. "I need it to work harder," "It keeps me relaxed," and "I only use
it when I need to" — -these aren't excuses, but a desperate attempt to justify
a detrimental band-aid, rather than address the underlying problem itself.
Often, this is because the underlying problem is not in that person's control.
After going through this process a few times, you see that the same pattern of
justification and denial of the real problem plays out again and again. What I
did not expect to see was this exact same pattern in an AI study. Dr Rebecca
Hinds and Dr Bob Sutton have collected first-hand experience from more than 100
executives, technologists, and researchers to create a "blueprint that can help
drive AI success", but it reads more like an addict desperately trying to
acknowledge the damage while defending their use at an intervention. Reading
this report made me realise that AI needs to be treated as a hard drug. Let me
explain.”
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
