Now, Mayor Lurie has gone a step further by formally convening an A-list of billionaire CEOs to advise him on policy. The roster of “Partnership for San Francisco” includes Sam Altman of OpenAI, Ruth Porat of Google and Alphabet, Brian Chesky of AirBnB, and even Y Combinator’s Garry Tan (yes, the “die slow motherfuckers” Garry Tan). Public policy is looking astoundingly private.

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I’m rooting for SF’s success as I have every day for the 32 years I’ve lived here. But we have to be real about the impact of installing inexperienced, tech-industry aligned conservatives to run all branches of government. It’s already a failed experiment. San Francisco is in serious jeopardy because of the rising rents, evictions, unemployment, mass incarceration, income inequality, racism, and privatization that billionaires are inflicting on our city. While some may see the excessive accumulation at the top as “abundance,” it looks an awful lot like a war against the city’s working people.

I think this is relevant to this community since AI is deeply tied to the kind of mindset that is choking San Francisco to death, an empty, vacuous cynical embracing of power and money and I think this is precisely the kind of mindset that AI was born out of, that AI reinforces and that AI is a natural evolution of dehumanization from.

A city run with this mindset can never truly be for the citizens, not even when the companies that reside in it are some of the most powerful, cash flush corporations on earth. It is too broken of an ideology and I think in many ways AI is a perfect reflection of that brokenness. Broken technology made by broken people.