It's bad, but I can imagine worse. Wait until they use AI for biological weapons and accidentally or deliberately make us extinct.
The "Cancel ChatGPT movement" doesn't appear to be mentioned in the article, but other outlets say hashtags like #CancelChatGPT are trending on X.
I think you're right that stock trading has enabled a lot of bad and perhaps shouldn't have been allowed. At least on a large scale beyond a single town or county. Paper certificates for money may have been a bad idea too. Even the use of a common currency like gold may have been a net negative. I think a barter system has positives over a common currency in that it requires people to work together and form communities.
Right
We've seen it many times. TV, teflon, social media, cars, AI...
Agreed but I haven't heard of that
Or usury
Have you seen Gattaca?
I wouldn't trust those funds myself. Plenty of oil companies say they're all about reducing CO2 and as I remember ESG was playing favorites rather than reflecting carbon emissions. Even companies that are trying to reduce emissions can still be invading people's privacy, lobbying (bribing) for bad legislation and doing other evil things.
It is reality. And unfortunately any "ethical" funds usually just focus on avoiding oil companies or military companies but are just fine with AI companies, surveillance companies, eugenics companies and so on. Nobody agrees on what is ethical I'm afraid. One man's unethical practice is another man's unethical-to-avoid practice.
I think they will give us the cancer cure which may even be cheap, but it will come with lots of other downsides for society and your individual physical and mental health. Technology is like black magic that solves the problem you asked it to but gives you a thousand new issues that end up being worse than the original situation.
Evil is part of human nature. Technology confers great power to both the good and bad, but it's much harder to create than destroy, so the result is that evil gets amplified more than good.