Hasnain says:

This was an interesting read. The author goes into problems AI is solving, bias issues with AI, and the case that we should scale back our investments in AI, and push a lot more resources towards thinking bigger: rethinking how societal structures are set up in the first place.

While I disagree with the premise (there are enough researchers and resources to do both!); the point in the middle about AI (and, if I stretch the argument, the Valley) mostly focusing on problems with a more singular viewpoint, divorced from problems faced by a large portion of the world, rings true to me.

Paraphrasing what a friend once said, Silicon Valley engineers create problems for themselves and then make startups to solve those problems, without ever venturing outside that bubble.

Posted on 2019-01-03T04:50:16+0000