What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse
TL;DR
The academic’s ambitious guide to the ethics of tech falls short of its promise to provide meaningful answers The AI ethicist Eleanor Drage believes that to thrive alongside artificial intelligence, humans need to recognise AI’s “humanity”. She means that while we often speak of AI as though it were some mystical, formless thing, it is the product of hours of human labour, in silicon and quartz mines, microchip factories and data labelling centres.
Nauti's Take
Drage's demystification of marketing language is the valuable part: once you grasp that the cloud is someone else's computer and a hallucination is simply an error, negotiating with vendors gets a lot easier. The review names the limit itself, because the strong diagnosis is followed by few solid answers.
Useful for anyone responsible for AI procurement or comms; readers after concrete steps will come away disappointed.
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