Don’t worry about AI. (It’s not AI btw). In fact, don’t worry about technology.
The objects of your concern should be the human-made systems that consume and ideologize technologies.
Social media platforms, for example, aren’t problems in themselves. We attribute the underlying technologies of social media as the Great Proliferators of Terrible Behavior, when instead the proper location resides in the larger ideological systems in which they operate.
People reasoning directly among each other generally leads to productive and shared outcomes (insane virus-spreading family reunions being exceptions).
When community is mediated through third-parties, that’s when everything goes chaos and schism and adrenaline.
Today’s platforms are mediated. Specifically, a third object mediates social inputs, interactions, and outputs. To users, it’s a hidden, inaccessible, and uncontrollable object.
It’s true that technological algorithms perform the tactical intermediation.
But it’s ideological algorithms that perform the strategic intermediation.
Keep this mind when you teach that racist bot a lesson in the comments section. It’s not the racist bot that you’re teaching.