we are already in an AI catastrophe. "AI" has become lately a new thing due to a combination of some catchy technical advances and an associated runaway specula

we are already in an AI catastrophe. "AI" has become lately a new thing due to a combination of some catchy technical advances and an associated runaway speculative bubble. In reality this is just the latest act in a long-running process of data collection, quantification and data driven decision support that is gradually seeping through to permeate every facet of life. With the proliferation of digital computers (we are now swimming in a soup of etched silicon) these processes are exploding. Whereas in the past there was some breathing room for society to catch up, evaluate and control this technology [0], today the rapidity has converted it into a wild west: tech entrepreneurs and their financiers declare their self-serving moral standards as the new norm, the broader public is dazed, confused and misinformed and public institutions, nominally at the service of the citizenry are only as good as their weakest, most capturable link Name one development over the past decade that indicates we [1] are actually capable to control what is happening and the above dark picture is mere scaremongering. [0] think e.g., about regulatory constraints around insurance or financial data and models [1] as in citizens anywhere in the world