Agreed. A bunch of tech professionals I work with, in private, talk about how scary AI is but nobody dare say anything in public as to hurt the bottom line. Add that to climate change...
I'm vastly more afraid of panicked Shock Doctrine citzens being whipped into giving governments free hand in passing Total Information Control ultra PATRIOT Act power grabs than I am of AI.
For sure it's going to be messy af where we are going.
Manufacturing disinformation will scale up like crazy. But already there is a sizable world economy on certain propagandizing vicious bastard states, doing this shit manually, at global scale. The additional magnitudes are, but for now, but not stressing me out, and in fact creating the potential for us to start caring more realistically, creating the seeds for a return to journalism or other better high trust systems that we've already lost.
And there will be more automation, more 'jobs lost'. But again I think this probably more just exacerbates & spotlights wicked nasty gross problems with class & power that we already direly need to tangle with, that are already extreme.
But the story here is irresistible. We are manufacturing so much consent to spend oodles and oodles of effort & time trying clutching our pearls over this topic. We are already so far along in convincing ourselves how afraid we should be.
For sure it's going to be messy af where we are going.
Manufacturing disinformation will scale up like crazy. But already there is a sizable world economy on certain propagandizing vicious bastard states, doing this shit manually, at global scale. The additional magnitudes are, but for now, but not stressing me out, and in fact creating the potential for us to start caring more realistically, creating the seeds for a return to journalism or other better high trust systems that we've already lost.
And there will be more automation, more 'jobs lost'. But again I think this probably more just exacerbates & spotlights wicked nasty gross problems with class & power that we already direly need to tangle with, that are already extreme.
But the story here is irresistible. We are manufacturing so much consent to spend oodles and oodles of effort & time trying clutching our pearls over this topic. We are already so far along in convincing ourselves how afraid we should be.