AI sucks. Hating it is not enough - By Alice I. Cecile

In this post, Alice I. Cecile argues that hating AI is understandable but insufficient: the harms are real, the technology works well enough to matter, and neither boycotts nor bans are likely to make it disappear. Instead, she makes a case for “bitter hope”: targeted regulation, decentralised access, harm reduction, and a politics aimed at redistributing the gains rather than pretending the machine can simply be uninvented. * 00:00 - Introduction* 04:35 - AI sucks. * 06:47 - Boycotts, data centers and NFTs. * 11:09 - Unfortunately AI does work. * 17:05 - Hating AI that works. * 25:15 - A budding Butlerian Jihad. * 27:44 - The limits of boycotts. * 32:28 - Regulation will save us! * 34:36 - Regulation will not save us? * 38:45 - A future worth fighting for. * 42:13 - Regulation that works. * 45:04 - Decentralization that matters. * 48:15 - A future I believe in. https://shaping.systems/blog/ai-sucks-hating-it-is-not-enough/ Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe