SILICON VALLEY AI HYPE MACHINE
AI will be less than we’re promised and more than we need
The Great Promise of Silicon Valley AI Technology
Technology is framed as the Great Promise.
I feel a little deceived.
Maybe even betrayed.
Not me exactly, but all of us. Led down a garden path. Promised something never delivered.
What are the roots of these feelings of betrayal? What do we trust? Where is the compass?
I was always suspicious. I didn’t understand, and I asked a lot of questions. But I also took a lot on trust, and in life, that can be a terrible choice.
Instinct is where you begin. Pay attention to how you feel, and how I felt when I first moved forward into this brave new world promised us by the Digital Lords of Silicon Valley was confused. What was being told to me made little sense.
When I expressed that confusion, the reaction was usually derisive. Get with the program. Don’t be left behind. Generational put downs. A whole raft of rolling eyes and shaking heads. I just didn’t get it, apparently. Except I did.
