[NYT Opinion] AI is a parasite

Tressie McMillan Cottom's NYT piece reframes AI with a biological metaphor that sticks:

A.I. is a parasite. It attaches itself to a robust learning ecosystem and speeds up some parts of the decision process. The parasite and the host can peacefully coexist as long as the parasite does not starve its host. The political problem with A.I.'s hype is that its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments.