Will Accountants Save Us From AI?

So, is it reasonable to expect that accounting firms staffed with, well, accountants and not hoity-toity AI developers, and operating with potentially mixed or biased incentives, will meaningfully ensure that AI tools are safe? Of course not. But why shouldn’t they cash in on the AI craze before the real accounting occurs?

AI Makes Us Peasants

Amidst all the speculation about AI solving problems great and small (while potentially destroying all of humanity in the process), we’ve lost sight of what it’s already doing to our work and lives: It’s remaking us into peasants.