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MWC hears two starkly divided views of AI’s impact
Two sharply different visions of AI were platformed on stage at the Mobile World Congress trade show on Monday. The true believer’s case for the
The AI-adjacent doomsaying arrived in person, and with plainer speech: author, academic and tech investor Scott Galloway used his on-stage fireside chat to warn that rage-fuelling algorithms are destroying an entire generation of (mostly) young men. Left to run by their negligent owners, the algorithms figured out “that the ultimate branding tool is rage”, he argued — painting a picture of ad-funded, AI-fuelled platforms profiting from a polarised nation where neighbors in the U.S. are increasingly not talking to each other. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues.
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