The Observer view on how Hollywood’s strikes show that we can’t trust corporations with AI | Observer editorial

The past 1,000 years show the rewards of technological progress go to those who own and control it, not societyHistory suggests that societies generally overestimate the short-term implications of new technologies while underestimating longer-term ones. Current experience with artificial intelligence – the technology enabled by machine-learning – suggests we are getting it the other way round this time. There’s too much talk about the putative “existential risk” to