A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.

People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse::A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.

    • FireTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      1 year ago

      “[Eli] Whitney believed that his cotton gin would reduce the demand for enslaved labor and would help hasten the end of southern slavery. Paradoxically, the cotton gin, a labor-saving device, helped preserve and prolong slavery in the United States for another 70 years.”

    • Sharkwellington@lemmy.oneEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      How can having more tools to solve problems make things worse?

      Depends on who’s using it and for what purpose.

    • Kalothar@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      Well, for one clearly this creates more mechanisms to exploit the poor. Especially if we chose to regulate as slowly as we have with other tech in the past.