Went to get some laundry services and called the number. I was leery as I am in Toronto area and number was Nova Scotia.
A male sounding person answered and I started posing questions about laundry services they offered. This guy was the politest person I had heard in over a decade. Concise but vague. I thought it was VOIP delay as there was a 3-5 second pause for him to reply but realized that it was too consistent. It was a fucking AI attendant talking at me. I said stick your AI, I will not be using your services and hung up.
Grrrrr me want human.
The same way society has any time we have a technological advancement that has negative consequences but makes a profit. We ignore it until its either too late or becomes too big of a problem to tackle.
A few that come to mind are things like asbestos, lead based products, pollution, CO2 emissions… and thats without stopping to think of a list