[Loughla]

>[. . .] no one, let alone the lay in that specific tech, are even capable of understanding the consequences and what we're loosing.

This 100%. Living deep in flyover country, I have heard the sentence in your second paragraph from several people.

And do you know who I blame?

Creators and marketers of AI/ML. People on this site are included in that list.

They are being lauded as the saviors of humanity. Think of all we can learn and do with AI/ML. Nevermind that they're just sufficiently large datasets with sufficiently complicated math problems. Also nevermind where that data is coming from or what it contains.

You won't have to worry about online shopping, because we'll be able to get you your stuff faster! Isn't that great?!

In flyover country, deep in flyover country, away from huge cities, away from tech, people do not understand what data is out there about them and what is being done with it. That is the biggest problem with all of this. They literally don't understand why it's a problem, let alone the nuance of the problems.