The faith was never there. AI might turn on us someday or become racist, etc. <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-revealed-the-dangers-of-online-conversation" rel="nofollow">https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-...</a><p>The faith is in nature from which human beings created the technology to solve things and make life easier. AIs are basically toasters that can solve problems, not like a human being that has feelings or even a soul. Remember the Sci Fi warnings of Cylons, Terminators, where the AI becomes a Frankenstein's Monster and turns on its creator.
Technology is fine. It's what people do with it that makes it beneficial or harmful. We have had a handful of sociopaths, megalomaniacs and weaponizers of it.<p>Edison on electrocution:<p><a href="https://archive.ph/OvZ9y#selection-887.0-945.133" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/OvZ9y#selection-887.0-945.133</a><p>“The most suitable apparatus for this purpose is that class of dynamo-electric machinery which employs intermittent currents,” Edison wrote. “The most effective of these are known as ‘alternating machines’ manufactured principally in this country by Geo. Westinghouse.”<p>Edison’s logic was twisted, barbaric and possibly brilliant: If he could convince the world that Westinghouse’s alternating current was a swift and efficient killer, his method would be seen as safer, increasing his market share.<p>“The electric chair’s midwife was greed,” Brandon wrote, “the kind of pure, unadulterated greed for which the Gilded Age was famous.”