Regarding the report on Uber for nursing: https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/uber-for-nursing
Katie J. Wells quote from near the end of the interview:
...when you have very very low expectations for public government, Silicon Valley looks like an OK alternative... the technology in your pocket somehow looks more useful.
This says so much about citizenship and the relationship between democracy, autocracy, and technology.
Echoes the LinkedIn comment by Tim Appleby in response to the (incorrect) perception that LLM-based chatbots are better than a traditional search engine for search:
While I agree that it isnt and should not be a search engine, it performs the function of finding source information on websites better than some of the actual search engines... Googling anything today results in 3 ads, 4 AI generated articles that zapped into existence the second you hit search with no sources and a fake author, and SEO-hacked keyword pages for things that are entirely irrelevant. When everything is this broken, its hard to say the less-sh*t option [i.e. a chatbot] isn't a viable one.