"Technology was the new religion of the people. There was the sense that there was no problem that technology could not solve." Carl Benedikt Frey, "The Technology Trap"
One major truth about AI...solutionism is very much alive. The belief that technology has all our answers to all our problems is seen in so much of the "promo-rhetoric" around this technology.
We learning nothing from the past because we have blinded ourselves from any views backward, for if we look there, we see that very often, the technologies we develop to solve our problems, sometimes solve their intended targets, but with them, come a host of unintended and "unforeseen" consequences. (Could it be this "unforeseenness is related to the blinders we wear towards the past?) For every tech solution, if you use the lens of history, there are always less than desirable and sometimes catastrophic consequences.
By wearing the lenses of solutionism, leaders are blind to the possibility that the most expedient solution is sometimes not technological, and that there just might be an answer that does not require computer chips and screens.
AI offers some benefits, not doubt, but to religiously and fanatically claim that it will cure a host of our ills, without providing any solid evidence is cultish. That has never ended well for those who unquestioningly follow these individuals.
Instead, THINK...think for yourself. Do not simply accept the latest prognostifications from some tech enthusiast who really has a financial interest in selling your that product, AI products included.
Leading means thinking critically and not always falling immediately for the false promises of solutionistic rhetoric.
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