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>> AI promises to elevate healthcare; but, to the degree that it replaces doctors and nurses, it also threatens to depersonalise patients and to wash off their
by tivert 2y ago
>> AI promises to elevate healthcare; but, to the degree that it replaces doctors and nurses, it also threatens to depersonalise patients and to wash off their distinctive colours until everyone has the same drab tint.
> I don't perceive AI as the thing that's doing that. That depersonalization was a foregone conclusion the very moment someone came up the idea of privatizing healthcare
AI is the apotheosis of that.
- yellowapple 2y agoNo, the way AI is used is the apotheosis of that. There is nothing inherent in AI that makes it automatically serve the interests of capitalism, for the same reason there is nothing inherent in any other technology that makes it automatically serve the interests of capitalism. Rather, capitalists exploit such technologies and wield them to those ends. The shovel that digs a mass grave is, at the end of the day, just a shovel.