There are so many reasons to hate AI that my first piece along these lines from last year barely scratched the surface. To reiterate first principles, my main problem with Artificial Intelligence, as its currently sold, is that it’s a lie. In almost every single instance of AI hype: 1. Those things that it can actually do are either evil, stupid, harmful, environmentally ruinous, or all of the above. 2. The technology cannot do almost all of the things it purports to do. 3.