I was on board with this article until they described all the power fantasies that techbros were having as facts. AI isn’t going to kill us because it grows sentient and “gets ahold of nuclear codes”; AI will kill us through sheer, painful, ecological collapse as Techbros seek to scale their models ever larger with more datacenters. Either that, or the economy collapses first, killing the tech (and likely the Techbros), and leaving us to ecological collapse anyways because of 200 years of industrial ratfuckery on a planetary scale.
AI won’t kill us because it’s smart, it’ll kill us because it’s so, SO dumb.
Why fear artificial intelligence when natural stupidity is so much more powerful?
AI doomsday marketing wank has the same vibe as preteens at a sleepover getting spooked by a ouija board.
It doesn’t have to be good to be bad.
Right. If I had dumped all my money into AI stonks and was overall deeply invested into silicon valley I’d sell the doomer story, too. Keeps the bubble alive.
Meanwhile the REAL threat of the AI hype, i.e. overburdening ecosystems with ridiculously hungry data centers and putting children’s sanity in the hands of a hallucinating sycophantic autofill can be entirely ignored because “AGI BAD SO WE MUST BUILD AGI”.
Your last line reminded me of this…
I mean, Sam Altman was literally throwing movie nights at OpenAI HQ with the movie “Her”. So either he didn’t get it or his copy conveniently ends at halftime.
Are these AI Experts in the room with us now?
Because they’re fucking idiots and hype men…
They want people to believe this is true, so that they panic buy in.
This is reminiscent of tobacco execs saying tobacco doesn’t cause cancer. They’re not “experts” they’re paid shills who will say anything to make the stick price go up.
I’d like to say this isn’t true for my kid, but then he did buy that hot new Corvette…
Just ask it how many Rs are in blueberry, and run away while it has to think about it a while.
So it’s a race then, between AI’s killing us thru high-tech malice, and we killing ourselves thru the same old stupidity?
“And may the best man win!”
Wow, that 55 year-old movie “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project” is getting scarier to watch!
Or useless old people will be turned in to a soylent green to feed the working meat slaves.
