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AI Becomes a Target of Growing Public Blame
Original: AI Has Become a Punching Bag
The American Prospect argues that AI has turned into 'a punching bag', with critics and the public increasingly directing frustration at artificial intelligence for problems ranging from job losses to misinformation and flawed automated decisions. The piece suggests AI is now a convenient focal point for wider anxieties about technology, the economy and institutional failure, regardless of how directly it causes those harms.
Why now: Debate is intensifying over AI's role in social and economic problems, prompting renewed criticism of the technology.
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- AI Has Become a Punching Bag · The American Prospect
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