SPOT ON ASHRAFF!!!! What amazes me is that all the enthusiasm for AI ignores how it sustains our corrupt and capricious political economy (Techno-Feudalism) just when we need to take some sort of guaranteed income much more seriously. You might enjoy my recent missive: https://medium.com/@daneke/it-is-a-thing-thing-openai-artificial-general-intelligence-and-the-emergence-of-alien-life-on-432877b548c3