Post #4669252 · Elektrine

2026-09-11 03:02 UTC

I want everyone, especially journalists, to notice the silence of the tech execs about this. This includes people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg whose recent blog posts talk about balancing the benefits and harms of "AI", and don't include Doomer scenarios among the harms. They are complicit in the misinforming of the public. They are complicit in stoking everyone's fear. They reap the benefits of the Doomer narrative because it is their narrative. /fin

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@jordan@mastodon.subj.am 2026-09-11 03:44

@emilymbender@dair-community.social All the while, human culture erodes and oceans boil.

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@zrb@social.hildebrind.space 2026-09-11 09:25

@emilymbender@dair-community.social "oh nooo the chatbot we're making is soooo smart it's gonna take over the world if we're not caaaareful, you'd better give us more money so we can figure this out!" imagine having control over that much wealth and power and choosing to spread fear over a fake scenario that isn't happening just so you can hoard a bit more wealth and power, instead of, I dunno, focusing on actual problems like the ongoing collapse of our entire biosphere the sad part is some of them are so far gone and full of their own opinion that they might honestly actually believe in roko's basilisk

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