[ChrisMarshallNY]

> AI is not here to help people.

True, but it isn't here to not help people, either.

It's a spanner. Who wields the spanner, makes all the difference.

We've spent the last couple of decades, cultivating a huge crop of ultimate scumbag billionaires, with comically exaggerated sociopathy, and that has filtered down to almost every level of society. They are treated as gods, these days (they certainly think of themselves that way).

It still shocks me (but really shouldn't), on a daily basis, to encounter regular folks, interacting in stores and restaurants, or driving on roads, that mirror the values systems exemplified by our billionaires. Our politicians act that way, and one of their biggest selling points, is normalizing sociopathy (not just the US, either).

[Groxx]

It's a spanner where every quarter turn costs noticeable money. Which directly funds behavior like this.

The tool analogy is intentionally minimizing, and doesn't capture just how different rented tools with constant surveillance are.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Doesn’t absolve the spanner-wielder from responsibility, though.

We live in an age, where the mere thought of personal Responsibility is terrifying.

[Groxx]

Yes, I mean it in the sense that the spanner itself and who the spanner funnels money to is so bad that anyone using it has automatically accepted themselves being that bad. Unlike most tools (which the tool analogy leans on heavily), it's very much not an impartial tool, there is no such thing as "using it responsibly" when you're paying Musk.

[zelphirkalt]

Exactly. I couldn't have said it better. I hope I will still live to see the pitchforks coming out and taking all of this crap down, but I fear it might be longer than a lifetime, before we rid ourselves of these parasites.

[sylos]

Wasn't ai introduced so replace people? It's not the spanner, it's the car and we're the horses

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Nah. It was introduced to push tech, but if you're a billionaire, then it was introduced to make you richer. They don't especially care, whether or not that involves replacing people.

Replacing people is what C-suiters think of it (and many of them aren't billionaires).