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Its really a viewpoint common to tech workers. They see and solve the technological aspects of a problem while remaining blind to the larger more complex social aspects that remain unsolved, but think the problem is solved.

Here are other examples:

- promising self driving cars (driving is more than a technical activity, it's a social activity. AI is nowhere close to driving the easier technical aspects, much less the more complex social aspects)

- AI is already better than or will replace doctors. As of all doctors do is look at symptoms and up with diagnosis. The social part of medicine is the larger job by far, not diagnosis.

- algorithms can't biased. My AI predicts some function that has some real life impact. That the input data is biased, and therefore the output data is just as biased or even more biased. Well that's not my problem. I only build models, and lines of codes are not biased. But the result of your work is being used in the society to perpetuate bias. It's not okay to remain wilfully oblivious to that.