Unlike Sir Keir Starmer (who, rather ominously, says he wants to mainline the technology into Britain’s veins) I’m broadly pessimistic about AI. We may not be talking existential doom—if you ask me, the chances of humanity being wiped out by AI are no higher than 60 or 70 percent—but eliminating jobs and spreading misinformation is bad enough. I just can’t see this thing ending well.
Still, every cloud has a silver lining. The future may be gloomy, thanks to the corporate world’s unthinking embrace of AI’s dubious merits, but the situation is bringing some benefits in the short term. And frankly, I think we should take the wins where we can find them.
I’m talking, of course, about Apple Intelligence specifically. Partly because I’m more interested in Apple than other tech companies, and partly because Apple’s AI platform is that much more likely to be somewhat constrained by social ethics and the principles of data privacy. The company isn’t perfect by any means, but as a general rule its reliance on customer goodwill incentivizes better behavior.
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