Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence by Vikram Mansharamani. Vikram was a Lecturer at Harvard University and also previously lectured at Yale University.
He holds a Ph.D. and Masters from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and a Masters in Political Science also from MIT. He holds a BA from Yale University.
In our AI world Vikram pushes the pause button, for good reason. We have lost the ability to think for ourselves. He provides solid examples of AI gone wrong. As indicated the bookcover of a car driving into a river is a true story.
On the island of Sardinia, the town began erecting signs “Do not follow the directions of Google Maps.” 144 drivers were requesting ‘rescue’ services. As a result of blindly following the AI mapping application.
The message is also that we must question AI. In fact, we must outright challenge the so called experts, their products, and how they position their services. While it may work for one service, it will certainly not work for all.
Vikram rightfully calls out the so called experts. They live in their bubble and fail to consider the wider impacts across our world, results can even include death.