Looking at it a different way, I find this initiative rather heartening. A lot of AI applications have been extensions of mechanical efficiency--doing more wit

Looking at it a different way, I find this initiative rather heartening. A lot of AI applications have been extensions of mechanical efficiency--doing more with fewer people. More than a few people are worried about the consequences of this progression since there's not an obvious place for displaced workers to go the way manufacturing has soaked up agricultural works in the past. The authors of the manifesto seem to be concerned with avoiding some of the obviously bad possible outcomes of widespread AI use by explicitly looking for ways that it can also change society for the better. Just being able to articulate what we mean "by benefitting humanity as a whole" would already be a good contribution.