Someone presented an old photo of math teachers protesting against the introduction of calculators. There was a caption under the photo, "AI. We've been there before".
Well. My comment was that things are similar and analogies work. Unless they don't. In particular, we don't really know what the impact of AI will be decades from now but we already know that calculators didn't change that much. Just to keep in mind things that were introduced, used for years despite initial controversies but ultimately we discarded them as dangerous, like leaded gas or asbestos.
We shouldn't fall into the premature assessment fallacy. We have arguments for and against AI but we don't really know what future it holds.
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