The world's tech billionaires are starting to moderate their rhetoric on AI automation, but that doesn't mean it's all in good faith.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/AntiAI@lemmy.blahaj.zone/t/2771990

As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.

  • StopTech@lemmy.todayOP
    45·
    14 days ago

    So you’re saying taxes are good when we have a government that serves the people? So how about we require the government to serve the people before we let them take taxes?

    • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
      61·
      14 days ago

      So how about we require the government to serve the people

      And what are you doing to work towards this goal?

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 days ago

      Yes, there’s interstate compacts starting to form around this sort of thing. They’ve been in the works for a while now.

    • Guttural@jlai.luFrançais
      1·
      14 days ago

      We need hospitals, roads and schools now, not in a perfect-world future that will never come.

      • StopTech@lemmy.todayOP
        11·
        10 days ago

        Hospitals are now used for organ harvesting, eugenical screening and killing babies. Schools are now used for indoctrination and learned helplessness. Hospitals and schools existed and were more functional before they were government-funded.