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How can having more tools to solve problems make things worse? I can't think of any problem in my life that more tools and methods would work against solving it.
"[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."
Depends on who's using it and for what purpose.
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.
The AI is in the hands of interests who think you are the problem.
(They don't like me either.)