While I don't agree with Yudkowsky's over hyping of the tech as well. This stance of slowing down its proliferation in infrastructure matters is also very limit

While I don't agree with Yudkowsky's over hyping of the tech as well. This stance of slowing down its proliferation in infrastructure matters is also very limiting. In the case of U Michigan and Flint's water infrastructure predictive AI far far far outclassed the predictions of local contractors on where the actual lead pipes were buried. The AI was order of magnitude more accurate. Regardless of AI's efficacy Flint's Mayor temporarily replaced the AI (bc AI fear mongering stoked classism) with a contractor who was right only ~15% of the time vs. the AI's 70%+. Those numbers affect thousands and thousand of people's access to a basic human right: water. US Court determined the AI had less bias, and there should be no discrimination on where to dig up pipes based on where someone lived (ie. richer neighbourhoods). The benefit of AI is it makes decisions MORE transparent, not less. It pulls apart prediction from judgement in decision making. So you can tweak it, call bullshit on it, etc.