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> What happened? How, in those early Internet years, did we get the future so wrong? Sort of reminds me of some scientists concerns after inventing the atom/hy
by windlep 10y ago
> What happened? How, in those early Internet years, did we get the future so wrong?
Sort of reminds me of some scientists concerns after inventing the atom/hydrogen bomb.... oops, what did we just do?
Yet I don't see or hear about any tech ethics groups. You know, a group of people that actually tries to determine whether some tech being considered/built will actually be good for society or not. From what I've read, the Amish have such a thing, ie, it's not that they're strictly anti-tech, but that they have community leaders that evaluate the pros/cons to their society before allowing its introduction.
I found it refreshing that there's movement around an AI group of this nature to try and ensure we don't hose ourselves with AI, but really, a broader tech ethics group should've already been on that as well.
Unfortunately it's much easier to just plow ahead and ignore such things in the hopes of being the next billionaire startup founder. Leave it to someone else to decide whether you're making things in our society/world better or worse.