On 22/08/2017 at 13:36, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:38:50 +0200, Adam wrote in message
> <20170822013850.ute5cf7ycrlvc4rq@???>:
>
>> There are cases when the old way had its merit -- but here, we have an
>> equivalent of a car that needs to be started with a hand-crank.
>
> ..you may have missed "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and George
> Orwell's "1984", or at the very least, the main point of these 2 books
> and your own nation's history, in these Trumpian times.
>
> ..an hand-crank car keeps you in control of what's going on around you,
> if you pay attention.

Why do you think an electric motor cannot do the same?

> Your new shiny AI car may decide to kill you to
> save e.g. "a more worthy person" from something really, really bad, e.g.
> Trumpian embarrasment, e.g. because you pay attention to what's going
> on around you. ;oD

First off, an electric engine starter does not have to have any AI
built-in. The XX century auto industry proved it.

Secondly, AI is not inherently a user alien technology, no more that
computers are per se a tools against the users. It all depends on who is in
charge. As there is software that puts the user in charge (Free/OS
software) and software that deprives the user of any freedom (proprietary
software), so there is AI that just serves users and AI that controls them.
If this could not be, then your only option would be forsaking IT altogether.

Alessandro