@thomasfuchs Silicon Valley hopes AI will give them the one thing they want, more than anything in the world: an excuse for the obscenities they have unleashed and money they have wasted.
Until now that has been "the market", but that is now a problem as all decent people are disillusioned with capitalism.
The all knowing unknowable machine? That's something else entirely, and unlike economists who are the apologists for the current status quo, tech bros can be the priesthood of the new age.