The MIDAS Touch
Nancy DeRocco had a job. Jason Doss worked at Ford. Kevin Grifka was a union electrician. Every one of them was out of work for a while, filed a claim they were entitled to, and went back to work. Years later, a computer decided they were criminals. Working-class people that did everything right.
CEOs Optimized Themselves Out of a Job
Every week, another company announces it's using AI to cut jobs. The work being handed to machines is reading, writing, analyzing, and deciding. That's the description of the CEO's job, almost word for word. So why does the automation always stop one floor below the corner office?
The Argument We Won't Get to Have
AI can now write virus code from scratch, with no family tree at all. The frightening part isn't that someone could build something dangerous. It's that we would have no way to find out if they did.
The Algorithms That Reject Us
The algorithm wasn't coded to discriminate. It simply learned discrimination from historical lending patterns.
