Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All

<p>Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/28/ai-automation-could-impact-300-million-jobs-heres-which-ones.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a third of your tasks</a>? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kw7p/someone-asked-an-autonomous-ai-to-destroy-humanity-this-is-what-happened" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">paperclips</a>. Which, some experts seem to think, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvppm/the-open-letter-to-stop-dangerous-ai-race-is-a-huge-mess" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">will surely happen</a>.</p><br><p>Today we’re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of hype, but Criti-Hype, a kind of techno doomerism we’re often fond of here at Motherboard. Social media, biogenetics, Artificial Intelligence. These things could ruin us all. At least … that’s what people tell you when they’re selling something.</p><br><p>Lee Vinsel is a professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the host of the People &amp; Things podcast. His Medium post that caught our eye is: <em>You’re Doing it Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype</em>.</p><br><p><strong>Stories discussed in this episode:</strong></p><br><p><a href="https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype</strong></a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvppm/the-open-letter-to-stop-dangerous-ai-race-is-a-huge-mess" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess</strong></a></p><br><p><strong>We’re recording CYBER live on </strong><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/vice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Twitch