Re: “What the future will say we got wrong about AI” (July 19, Opinion):
Kevin Frazier’s visitor essay on the sluggish tempo of artificial-intelligence adoption is the only most miserable factor I’ve ever learn. He contends we are going to all remorse not adopting all of the great potential of AI extra rapidly. All of the computing energy on the earth can’t substitute the great thing about humanity. AI is immensely invaluable for scientific and medical analysis however aside from that, it’s rubbish. We don’t want all the things round us accelerating at breakneck pace. The ensuing lack of jobs, private connections and good previous human problem-solving is tragic.
Humanity is slowly slipping away from us, and we’re letting it occur. Amazon warehouse employees don’t have a second to calm down. Starbucks baristas should hustle at an ungodly tempo. Life is so a lot better at a slower tempo, the place folks have time to attach, and the place AI is a small instrument, not the entire ballgame. We don’t want self-driving something. We don’t have to re-skill anybody to suit into an AI-saturated world.
We want much less noise, much less divisiveness, much less expertise in our lives, no more. It’s an attractive world, an attractive life, if all of us embrace a smile, a sort gesture and the off button on all our screens.
Jim Spurr, Port Townsend
