← Feed

Posts

• View post

  It very much is still mostly a future problem, everything you’ve mentioned is mild in comparison to the potential disasters and some of those are kind of nothing burgers. Job lost: Actually, over 175k people have been laid off due to AI since they started tracking it in 2023. That number is likely to be underreported due to private terminations and layoffs that aren’t being reported. In the same time frame 664k people total (including AI layoffs) have been laid off since 2023, so AI lay offs o...

• View post

  This is probably a controversial take, but US based AI companies aren’t really that evil compared to the baseline of Non-AI US based companies. Oil & Gas companies and Social Media companies are far more evil than the AI giants. Yeah they’re lobbying for zero regulation and their products are becoming moderately dangerous as time goes on, but nothing on the level of what Exxon or Meta has done. 95% of the danger of AI is still in the potential future and assumes no guardrails or safe guards,...

• View post

  I wouldn't say we're past the point of reform, we lack the political will in our elected representatives and the numbers to force the issue. It is possible, but very unlikely, that we could flip the house and senate with enough progressive politicians that reform would be possible. However the establishment democratic party is unwilling to take the necessary steps or support the needed candidates. Their aim seems to be to become more centrist than they already were and maintain the statu...