You need to get out of your SV big tech bubble and go attend your local planning board meeting, the vast majority of the public hates this technology. It's literally killing members in their community and ruining the ecology.
The question we should ask is why a subset of humans are so gung-ho about this technology when all it's done is induced mass misery at even a greater scale. We all know the actual answer to this: they want more money even if the costs is more societal misery.
Be careful tho, we already know people are willing to commit violence and if it's one thing you can count on in the USA is when economic conditions worsen more people become desperate. That desperation leads to pretty extreme reactions, and these reactions are typically adored by the public writ large too (see the public's Luigi reactions).
Quite the powder keg and I don't think SV realizes the potential backlash that they are brewing themselves.
Wait, what? How’d we go from crappy GitHub PRs to “literally killing members in their community and ruining the ecology”? If you’re talking about massive data centers, I’m sympathetic to significantly better environmental protection laws. But that’s orthogonal to the goals of anti-AI people and mostly something they signal-boost because it helps recruit, not because big industry screwing over regular people is unique to AI.
Your other complaints seem more to do with concentration of wealth and capitalism, which AI is accelerating, but is not the cause of. Banning AI because unregulated capitalism is making people miserable would be like banning shipping containers to stop sweatshops.
The question we should ask is why a subset of humans are so gung-ho about this technology when all it's done is induced mass misery at even a greater scale. We all know the actual answer to this: they want more money even if the costs is more societal misery.
Be careful tho, we already know people are willing to commit violence and if it's one thing you can count on in the USA is when economic conditions worsen more people become desperate. That desperation leads to pretty extreme reactions, and these reactions are typically adored by the public writ large too (see the public's Luigi reactions).
Quite the powder keg and I don't think SV realizes the potential backlash that they are brewing themselves.