The AI Apocalypse Is Already Here
The AI Apocalypse Is Here
Americans are increasingly wary of AI, and this essay argues that their distrust is justified. The technology, even in its current form, threatens to undermine human distinctiveness, degrade culture, and erode democracy. The piece critiques both the industry's apocalyptic rhetoric and the inadequacy of current regulatory proposals, calling for a movement that opposes AI not just for future risks but for its present harms.
It is a testament to Americans’ retention of the spirit of liberty that they mistrust AI so much.
- piotrkaminski
> Given what we have already seen of AI, we can be confident that its widespread adoption will create a less free society, a less virtuous people, and a degraded culture.
I think this claim needs stronger evidence than "we can be confident".
- rufasterisco
> The obvious conservative response to a technology whose downsides are unfathomable is suppression, not encouragement. “Move fast and break things” might be an ethos conservatism can accept when the object being broken is the B2B SaaS status quo. But it cannot do so when the objects in question are human intelligence, sociability, agency, and existence.
Hold on.
I accept all the rethorical apocalyptic stuff, it comes with the title and each of us can have an opinion.
But “move fast and break things” is Facebook motto, and when it come to sociability, society at large, and politics, I you cannot say that.
Facebook/Meta merely breaking B2B SaaS?
It’s not really about “Meta is bad”. It’s recognising the fact that social media, spearheaded by Facebook has changed society and politics.
Some like it some don’t. I don’t want to enter a culture war, but can we agree that with Meta the “object in question” is not just a SaaS? It is sociability, it is society, it is politics?
This guy is an associate professor of politics at Princeton University.
How can you advocate for future policies over AI while at the same time misleading on the tech revolution that has shaped the past, what, 20 years?
What is being taught in those classrooms?
- d_silin
The question to Sam and Dario would be: if the thing you are building is going do displace humanity, then why are you building it?
- dcre
Didn’t read the whole thing, but it starts out a lot better than I expected. Most critics are in denial about the state and trajectory of the technology. This critic is not, he just thinks it’s bad.
- sumanep
> China has not known freedom for some time, but citizens of the United States have a long experience of it.
Lol?