The Observer view on how Hollywood’s strikes show that we can’t trust corporations with AI | Observer editorial

The past 1,000 years show the rewards of technological progress go to those who own and control it, not society

History suggests that societies generally overestimate the short-term implications of new technologies while underestimating longer-term ones. Current experience with artificial intelligence – the technology enabled by machine-learning – suggests we are getting it the other way round this time. There’s too much talk about the putative “existential risk” to humanity posed by AI, and too little about our experience of …

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