[enumjorge]

This feels like a very tech-industry answer. The solution to too much tech in our lives is more tech? AI? The latter especially I don’t buy. In my experience, apps and services that try to learn your usage patterns rarely do a good job of it. I know there’s really great uses of AI out there, but this idea that we can just sprinkle some AI dust over problems and they’ll be solved, feels like such a tired pitch by now. Often AI turns services into grey boxes that become very frustrating to use when their predictions are wrong. I don’t need to cede even more control of my life to algorithms that are opaque to me and are often trying to monetize me in ways I never consented to.

As far as more tech being more realistic than people opting for dumb phones en masse, you’re probably right, but AI being an actual good solution to tech addiction I disagree.