The booing that almost drove Eric Schmidt off that commencement stage when he tried to push AI should be a reminder that there are pretty much no other issues, short of hatred of child abuse, that cut across political lines more dramatically than the growing anger and pushback against Big Tech AI systems being forced on us, their associated data centers, and the politicians who support them.
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@lauren@laurenweinstein.org The truly incredible part is that if ML progress had continued to be pushed forward at the pace of better medicines and energy efficiency breakthroughs, it would have been nothing but celebration.
And yet.
@slightlyoff It's worse than that. The understandable hatred of the horrific LLM systems being foisted on us is causing potentially beneficial AI applications to increasingly become collateral damage.
@lauren ...and that's before discussing the layoffs and capital misallocation. Real "hat-trick of value destruction" stuff.
