What if artificial intelligence (AI) is allowing us to reward our own bad behavior?  At what point is the need for the sort of efficiency AI promises to provide driven by our skewed priorities, broken systems, and unwillingness to address our problems through non-technological means?  I don’t doubt that AI will help humans move beyond where we could go individually or together in certain arenas.  Like other technological platforms, AI will have benefits.  As we look at the various ways AI models are being used, we need to consider in a robust fashion who is benefiting from these new technologies and, perhaps more importantly, how they are benefiting.