After finishing his book 'Resisting AI', I was excited when Dan McQuillan agreed to write an essay as part of @jrf-uk.bsky.socialwww.jrf.org.uk/ai-for-publi...

Public policymaking: from AI to decomputing

AI seems to offer many benefits to public policymaking, but it can't address the tricky structural issues that impede actual change.

Some key points: 🚫Despite its claims to assist policymaking, AI can't address structural issues that impede actual change 😔Evidence already suggests that embedding AI in policy scales injustice & cruelty 💭AI produces thoughtlessness; the inability to be critical & reflect on consequences 2/3