Silicon Valley’s richest nerds appear lifeless sure that AI will make our world a greater place. Not everyone seems to be so satisfied, nonetheless. At SXSW this week, a sizzle reel that featured convention panelists speaking effusively in regards to the new expertise was roundly booed by disgusted viewers members.
The reel in query was proven earlier than the premiere of the brand new rom-com The Fall Guy. The video, which is lower than a minute lengthy, options panelists—together with famous tech journo Kara Swisher—saying stuff like “you must cease resisting and beginning studying” about AI, and “as an alternative of one thing you’ve got to withstand,” of us ought to “discover methods to leverage AI to speed up sooner.” One speaker helpfully tells viewers members: “Be a type of those that leverages AI, don’t be run over by it.” Throughout her phase, Swisher, who lately got chummy with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to advertise her new e book, mentioned that each firm will use AI to “determine how” to grow to be “extra environment friendly.”
Right here’s the reel:
Sure, wow! I suppose resistance is futile, guys. Higher simply assimilate to the Borg when you’re forward and cease worrying about stuff like job automation and AI-guided warfare. Every part’s going to be cool if we simply help AI now!
Nicely, viewers members weren’t having it. The video acquired booed. Like so much.
Right here’s the response to the reel:
Selection notes that lots of the viewers members who booed had been doubtless “writers and actors who simply spent a lot of 2023 on the picket line making an attempt to reign within the probably damaging energy of AI.”
Sure, not all people is as enthused in regards to the “AI revolution” because the tech trade’s jetsetter class. Unsurprisingly, the people who find themselves extra prone to lose a job relatively than acquire one because of technological disruption aren’t enormous followers.
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