Researchers have also written about the ethics. Is deploying these sorts of tools to resource-scarce environments going to actually help or will it simply justify decreasing their resources further? Why invest in training teachers, medical workers, and agricultural extension agents if you can just get a chatbot to teach lessons, give medical diagnoses, and tell you when to plant your crops? Are we just going to undermine social relations further by replacing work that plays intangible roles in maintaining communities with software that can only perform the strict job description? And that assumes that it can perform. What happens if your AI extension agent gives you bad crop advice and you lose your harvest?

I’m still convinced that LLMs are mostly a solution looking for a problem and their appeal would be much lower if our ruling ideas weren’t dogmatically aligned with automating away all workers.