> My advice is if AI tooling improves tasks you do (art, writing, coding, data entry) you should be using it now. If it doesn't you should continue to ignore it.
Ignoring AI isn't a good idea. At a minimum We should all probably be at least a bit concerned about AI and working to put oversight or regulations in place to protect us from the most obvious problems while keeping a close watch on our progress toward AGI so that we aren't blindsided and unprepared for it and whatever it brings.
Except AI being used by police fails to describe the problem. The problem is policing policy and practice, and that hasn't changed for hundreds of years. The ability to punt black box decision systems which might as well be a guy flipping a coin in there is just continuing the same problem.
The problem is that increasingly AI is impacting our lives in ways that aren't transparent or desirable. What AI can do for you matters a lot less than what AI can do to you. We should be concerned about things like AI being used by police (https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/13/137444/predictiv...) and judges (https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-crimi...) and employers (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098601458/artificial-intelli...) and criminals (https://vpnoverview.com/news/criminals-are-leveraging-ai-too...)
Ignoring AI isn't a good idea. At a minimum We should all probably be at least a bit concerned about AI and working to put oversight or regulations in place to protect us from the most obvious problems while keeping a close watch on our progress toward AGI so that we aren't blindsided and unprepared for it and whatever it brings.