I suspect – and rather hope – that this current infatuation with AI will just be yet another example of a crazy boom followed by a spectacular bust, which will no doubt cause great finacial loss to the 1% who’ve invested in it, while leaving the 99% who haven’t untouched and free to continue negotiating life’s rocky road in as painless a manner that individual circumstances permit.
On the one hand keeping the populace worried aids compliance while on the other keeping the populace distracted with ‘bread and circuses’ aids docility.
‘Flood the zone with sh*it’ indeed