AI is not fully regulated. AI was hyped up in 2024 when there was opportunity to get rich off of its potential. AI was supposed to make things easy. It was going to pave the streets with gold.
But then,
AI was the downfall of civilization. The reason families are failing apart and the devil and the end of the world.
When you have the US community never fully being trained in technology. When not knowing technology for years within American culture was a sign of not being a nerd and ignorantly cool. And in the Black community it was seen as not real education and video gaming. And in some cases many Black people were proud in the workforce about not knowing computers as a form of anti conformist ideology to “real work”. That contributed to a silent attack on the already mangled post Black-centric US workforce.
To show this wasn’t theory, between 1992 – 2012 schools in predominantly Black elementary and highschools refused to provide their accelerated students with computer classes. It would be special ed students that stayed in computer labs, used as busy work filled with games and no real academic engagement. It wouldn’t be until 2021 we’d learn many under-educated White communities began joining this mindset.
Back to the Black stuff: When Black students kept expressing the importance of tech to complete in an already unfair workforce, they were cited for being obstinate and even denied opportunities within Black led workforces, seen as “doing to much,” and simply “hush.” They essentially trained Black elders to shoot down any youth interested in tech, (dunno) maybe by design.
Read – https://archives.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2016/10/history-of-difference-inequality-in-higher-education/
Once you get to college many professors saw technology as anti intellectual and the use of computers as a tool of the lazy. Very few professors even used their computers and the photocopy machine was as far as they went. This eventually soured generations of college students that would see the smear of technology as video games and unserious advancement. It wasn’t even until 2015 Moodle and Blackbaud was considered apart of common higher ed curriculum.
Sidenote: Of course those same professors that berated students interest in technology, have now turn spaces like Substack, Bluesky, and LinkedIn into their stomping grounds, extremely gate kept and sorta dogmatic. But that’s another story.
And then COVID-19 Came,
Many of the American public faced technology illiteracy that frustrated many professionals. Many of them had shunned formal and informal technology-based professional development. This lack of skills exposed knowledge on technology was not only necessary in a modern work culture, it became a formidable requirement. The 2020 shutdown exposed the US workforce was broken and promoted the least qualified for decades, leaving them coping pleas for needing supplemental staff to appear qualified. The limitations of technology protected this great workforce lie, such paying dues and watching “mentors” dismiss tech culture.
High brow professional and workforce snobs blamed everything and everyone for failing for doing their jobs, now completely reliant on something they can’t fire, technology. They were exposed for not knowing basic skills such as participating in Zoom calls, PDF management, cloud sharing and other formalities with online communication. It was a mess.
To unpack the failure of gatekeeping in the workforce of at least knowing technology basics, the issue with AI is 30+ years of technology neglect now becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. The presumption AI would cover the lack of knowledge and the failed academic curriculum that refused to teach very necessary skills we needed. Not respecting or acknowledging basic technology before AI was released to the public, failed to properly and sustainably integrate AI as a tool and not a replacement of the mind.
AI is only in a bubble as long as the workforce fails to acknowledge we are in a post technology society. Basic technology is not a novel item anymore and apart of our day to day lives. When majority of the US public barely knows how to fully utilize technology beyond social media, the paranoia of AI is more likely the fear of being exposed for gross tech illiteracy. Real talk, this should’ve been resolved long before 2020 Shutdown. AI should not be scapegoated for being ill prepared and not used to poorly coverup terrible attempts of lack skills.