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by farts_mckensy 351 days ago
AI is here to stay, and you do not have agency over that. You can choose not to use it, but that has zero impact on the broader adoption rate. Just like when the automobile was introduced and society as a whole evolved.
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There was agency in policies promoting automobile adoption over rail travel. People who act like market forces are inevitable trends in nature tend to forget the political part where companies convince politicians to make policies in their favor, while bombarding the public with advertising. Like fossil fuel companies for example. Continued climate change wasn't inevitable. It was a choice humans with lots of money and power made and are still making.
And that's what's going to happen now. No amount of complaining about it online is going to stop it. They literally just passed a bill that prevents regulating AI. Rich people and their puppets in congress have some degree of agency. We don't. Sorry.
I heard the AI clause didn't make it into the final version of the bill that was passed (?)
99-1 vote in the Senate removed that from the bill before it went to the House.