Evans: AI Doomers Wrongly Treat Harmful Computer Decisions as Novel
Benedict Evans · Google Gemini and AI bias · Mar 3, 2024 · at 30:03
Tech analyst Benedict Evans argues that automated computer systems making consequential, life-altering mistakes have existed for decades prior to modern AI.
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“Screwing up with a computer is not new. This is my point. Ruining people's lives. This is kind of the kind of mistake that the AI dealers make is like, we haven't had computers before. We've never before have we had computers that were making decisions and could ruin people's lives.”
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