Personally, I see AI, like most technology, as a double edged sword. Used carefully it can be beneficial. The problem is that the nefarious potential to destroy jobs, drive the cost of electricity up, deplete water resources, and control the masses (make us all slaves of the oligarchs) is too great a risk to encourage support for AI. Push-back is occurring and Zerohedge has a post suggesting just that.
AI Is Losing The PR Battle And The Consequences Could Be Huge
A new national survey from Marquette University Law School should give the AI industry serious pause. According to the poll, roughly 70 percent of Americans believe artificial intelligence will do more harm than good for society. Even more striking, the skepticism cuts across party lines.
Poll Director Charles Franklin put it bluntly: “It really is striking … there’s pretty much bipartisan skepticism … That’s an awful lot of partisan agreement, where we normally see Republicans and Democrats on opposite ends.”
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In the past all technology was neutral. How to was used depending on who was using it. Now, for the first time, the technology in question gets a say in how it used. And since almost all AI platforms were designed, written and implemented by liberal leftists guess which way those machines are likely to lean. I suspect Stephen Hawking will be proved correct….AI will be the undoing of civilization.