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This is using AI as a tool.

But what the AI tech bros are selling to our corporate overlords is wholesale elimination of most of the high value, well compensated jobs that require years of experience, education, and knowledge.

These large layoffs that are rippling through our country are driven by that. Sam Altman, the leader of OpenAI, openly spoke of a goal to see the first billion dollar company with only a single employee.

Many of the the AI Tech bros openly talk of human extinction should AGI’s (Artificial General Intelligence) are be developed and deployed.

Yet they continue to feverishly work to create an AGI. Because their greed is apparently infinite as is their failure to understand that the Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads will fall on them as well.

I’m all for using AI as a tool that makes many jobs much, much easier and make possible things that were previously impossible.

I’m very much against anything that could become an AGI and render humanity unnecessary and too much trouble the keep alive.

There have been countless science fiction works that have covered what would happen if we let this genie out of the bottle. The Terminator series and Arthur C. Clark’s 2001 A Space Odyssey are ones that most will be familiar with.

The consensus, even among AI and Tech bros, is that once we lose control of AI humanity will be exterminated.

This is a technological leap that screams for stringent, robust regulation. But in this world, where the reactionary right is against government itself and has maneuvered into control of government there’s little chance of the kind of regulation that is supremely necessary.

We are driving with our eyes closed…we’re gonna hit something, but that’s the way it goes… (apologies to Don Henley).