Helen Beetham ticks her argument against artificial intelligence up a notch. "What if, at at least in its current, (de)generative, hyper-capitalistic guise, the project of AI is actively inimical to the values of learning, teaching and scholarship, as well as to human flourishing on a finite planet?" This, of course, is a complex question: hyper-capitalism could well be actively inimical to human values while AI itself could be neutral. There's no necessary connection between the two. Anyhow, Beetham expands on three major arguments to this end, with the promise of more: that AI does not tell the truth, it does not reason or explain, and that it does not develop expertise.
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