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I’m Losing All Trust in the AI Industry
As a supporter, I would love not to feel this way
I think the AI industry is facing a handful of urgent problems it’s not addressing adequately. I believe everything I write here is at least directionally true, but I could be wrong. My aim isn’t to be definitive, just to spark a conversation. What follows is a set of expanded thoughts on those problems, in no particular order.
Disclaimer: Not everyone in AI is as bad as I’m making them sound. I’m flattening a wildly diverse field into a single tone, which is obviously reductive. People are different. Nobody reading this will see themselves in everything I say, and I don’t expect them to. My focus is mostly on the voices steering the public discourse. They have an overdimensioned impact on what the world feels and thinks about AI.
Second disclaimer: I want to express my frustrations with the industry as someone who would love to see it doing well. One thing is to alienate those who hate you — a hate that’s become louder and widespread over time — and a different thing to annoy those who don’t. I hold no grudge against AI as a technology nor as an industry, and that’s precisely why I’m writing this.
