Politico

It often feels like AI is changing everything about the tech business—rewriting the rules of coding, swamping social media with deepfakes, even changing how companies are born. It’s happening so fast that even the most powerful tech firms are pleading helplessness.

The recent blowup over Jimmy Kimmel is driven by a lot of powerful currents in American life—grief, politics, business, freedom of speech.

Jay Stanley is the resident futurist at the American Civil Liberties Union. Asked what technology he thinks is overhyped, he said, "Obviously, the big question today is whether large language models and generative AI are overhyped. It’s certainly overhyped in the sense that it’s being deployed where it’s really not ready for prime time. Because it hasn’t been fully vetted in terms of its fairness, effectiveness and bias, it’s being used to replace humans in ways that degrade services for people. It makes decisions about human beings that have consequences for their lives.