Why AI is unpopular within the general public

Found on Decoder podcast from The Verge

Initially found on simonwillison.net

Any business process that looks like code talking to a database in a repetitive way is up for grabs.

It’s everywhere: the absolute cutting edge of advertising and marketing is automation with AI. It’s not being a creative.

But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database.

That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them.

it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software — to turn themselves into a database — is a doomed idea.