Can an A.I. Company Ever Be Good?

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Paul Ford: Nearly a billion people are using ChatGPT. What appears to be a multitrillion-dollar economic bomb has been unleashed into the world. The loudest voices believe A.I. will either demolish the labor market -- creating a jobless dystopia or creating a (similarly jobless) utopia -- or reveal itself soon as a huge fraud and a bubble.

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The entire culture of American technology is built around two terms: disruption and, of course, scale. But ethics are constraints on disruption and scale.

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Only if it were developed under an educated democracy.

#1 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-04-26 07:10 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

The Democrats are all against this stuff.

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-04-26 08:16 PM | Reply

Only if it were developed under an educated democracy.
#1 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

The more educated, the more political violence you tend to support. So no there's no such thing as an educated democracy, it destroys itself.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-04-26 08:57 PM | Reply

The Democrats are all against this stuff.

#2 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Interesting, I didn't imagine this would be so skewed.

Even when asked to build it close Republicans almost double the Democrat support for a datacenter.
www.politico.com

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-04-26 09:03 PM | Reply

Either when it is first created or a few years down the road, everything becomes weaponized to either oppress or to kill.

#5 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-04-26 09:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1