Letter: Tech needn’t be cleverer than we are to supplant us
From DA McM Wilson, Boston, MA, US
Professor Graham Bell (“Fears that AI will supplant humans are misplaced”, Letters, June 14) makes a neat philosophical argument that artificial intelligence can never be more intelligent than human beings, and therefore is unlikely to live up to some people’s fears that it will “supplant humans altogether”.
On the facing page, John Thornhill (Opinion, June 14) suggests that “maybe AI will be deployed to transform corporate cost structures” in a new wave of private equity value extraction. This is a good reminder that technology needn’t be cleverer than we are to supplant us, and that workers’ fears may be technically misplaced yet practically justified.
DA McM Wilson
Boston, MA, US
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