I agree, that’s exactly my point. Farmers who can do shit like that and truckers who can block roads have a disproportionate amount of power with their protests. The rest of us is relegated to peaceful protest on the side of the road (or usually in a field or on a square). Which becomes a real issue when the truckers ride in convoys for fascism and farmers support the far right.
Yeah it makes me so mad when I see farmer using their farming equipment to protest, or truckers using their trucks. Everyone has the right to protest, but that right should be equal. So if they want to organize a protest, gather together somewhere in a large group, that’s fine by me. But once they start using their equipment that’s where I draw the line.
The reason they are allowed (and often licensed) to use that equipment is because they need it to do their jobs. As soon as they use it for any other purpose, they should not be allowed to do so. It’s super disruptive, often unsafe and an abuse of their rights and privileges. The impact their protest has is amplified greatly by the use of the equipment. The right to protest should be equal. I work in IT, what the hell am I supposed to do? Start throwing my laptop at cars? I’ll be put in jail if I did that, and rightfully so.
They can all just protest like the rest of the plebs, like me. Any farmer, trucker or whatever appropriating their equipment for anything but their job should immediately lose access to said equipment. They earn the right to use the equipment through permits and licenses, they should lose it if abused.
Uhm do you mean the updoots? What are upvotes?
No the “AI” isn’t a threat in itself. And treating generative algorithms like LLM like it’s general intelligence is dumb beyond words. However:
It massively increases the reach and capacity of foreign (and sadly domestic) agents to influence people. All of those Russian trolls that brought about fascism, Brexit and the rise of the far right used to be humans. Now a single human can do more than a whole army of people could in the past using AI. Spreading misinformation has never been easier.
Then there’s the whole replacing peoples jobs with AI. No the AI can’t actually do those jobs, not very well at least. But if management and the share holders think they can increase profits using AI, they will certainly fire a lot of folk. And even if that ends up ruining the company down the line, that costs even more jobs and usually impacts the people lower in the organization the most.
Also there’s a risk of people literally becoming less capable and knowledgeable because of AI. If you can have a digital assistant you carry around on your pocket at all times answer every question ever, why bother learning anything yourself? Why take the hard road, when the easy road is available? People are at risk of losing information, knowledge and the ability to think for themselves because of this. And it can become so bad, when the AI just makes shit up, people think it’s the truth. And in a darker tone, if the people behind the big AIs want something to not be known or misrepresented, they can make it happen. And people would be so reliant on it, they wouldn’t even know this happens. This is already an issue with social media, AI is much much worse.
Then there is the resource usage for AI. This makes the impact of crypto currency seem like a rounding error. The energy and water usage is huge and becoming bigger every day. This has the potential to undo almost all of the climate wins we’ve had for the past two decades and push the Earth beyond the tipping point. What people seem to forget about climate change is once things start becoming bad, it’s way too late and the situation will deteriorate at an exponential rate.
That’s just a couple of big things I can think of on the top of my head. I’m sure there are many more issues (such as the death of the internet). But I think this is enough to call the current level of “AI” a threat to humanity.
It’s all projection with them, it always is.
I’m sleeping on the job a lot, so my opponent is probably doing the same. And since I’m so awesome, he must be doing it worse than I am.
Sorry, but if you’re posting on social media instead of watching the movie, is it really a good movie?