Forest fire warning. In March!
Forest fire warning. In March!
Whats that you say? Agentic AI will crash the global economy putting millions or even billions of people out of work while at the same making GDP go through the roof.
Normal, sane people will look at this and think "no fucking way are we going to allow this insane shit storm to happen". They will recognise that AI and the world cannot be allowed to develop as this scenario predicts. Normal, sane people will try to pass laws, develop safety nets and other restrictions to limit AI. They might even man the fucking barricades.
The billionaire class will read this report and think. "We will become even more fabulously wealthy if we do this. This is exactly what we need to do". They don't give a shit about anyone without a billion in the bank and a mega-yacht. Of course they have always thought like this. The only difference is the number and status symbols. The rest of humanity are the hired help /at best/. We only exist so the billionaire class can exploit our labour and extract rents from us.
The billionaire class controls every single method normal, sane people can try to stop this from happening. They own politicians, judges, ethics bodies etc etc etc. They get what they pay for.
We need to totally bypass the normal way of doing things. The only way we can stop them is to literally man the barricades or to cut the cables. Politics and economics wont help us.
Monke together strong. Its the only way we can resist the billionaires. It has worked in the past when the proles resisted the aristos (and cut off the aristos heads). It has to work now. If it doesn't... we are fucked.
#WeAreFucked #Politics #UKPolitics #GlobalCollapseImagine a future where an AI program running a store decides that human beings really need to buy a plastic vase and it advertises them everywhere.
Imagine an different AI designing cheap plastic vases based on information it has stolen from all of human art.
Now imagine every step of producing those vases that being entirely automated. Creating the molds is done by AI / CNC machines. The manufacturing process requires zero human input. The raw materials come into and the packaged vases go out of the factory on driverless trucks. No human works in the factory at all.
The vases are delivered to an entirely automated warehouse that is essentially a component of the AI running it the store.
The factory will almost certainly be on another continent to the warehouse. That's fine the ships won't need any crew either.
It turns out that most humans already have a cheap plastic vase. They don't want to buy these new vases even at incredibly low prices. This is because most humans either don't have any income because their jobs were replaced by AI or are climate refugees or both. Most humans have no need for the vases and can't afford them anyway.
The AI ordered 10 million cheap plastic vases based on its estimation of demand. Less than 1% of the order actually sell. Of course the vases can't be recycled, they are cheap plastic after all.
More driverless trucks are loaded by driverless fork lifts to take the unwanted cheap plastic vases to a landfill site for disposal. The bulldozers and other heavy machinery at the landfill are driverless too of course. The landfill site might be on a different continent to the warehouse and factory.
All of this complete waste of time and resources would be counted as positive economic activity. A politician would boast about how AI is generating GDP. Already mega-wealthy people will make money at each step.
None of this benefits the vast majority of the humans on the planet. It just wastes valuable resources.
Its not hard to imagine this scenario happening because it is exactly what happens now but with the absolute minimum of human involvement. That makes it more "efficient" in the eyes of the economy and therefore a good thing. We will have this future forced down our throats whether we like it or not.
May what ever gods and goddesses there may be look down favorably on us all. Jesus fucking wept etc.
“Until there is governance, these guys will do anything,” he [Janos Pasztor] said of Stardust.
As is often the case with my colleagues, I was most disheartened by the responses of the 20-odd faculty in the room with me. That is to say, there was no response. Nobody asked the glaring questions. There were perhaps three softball questions and one meandering question whose point I don't think anyone followed.
There was exactly one slide on #ethics. It said "Ethical AI." It had some bullet points about helping students not cheat (spoiler: most of it is to encourage AI use and stop thinking of it as "cheating"). Nothing about the (to me) much larger ethical issues.
Toward the end of the talk I asked a question (which was kind of long): I listed, in 30 seconds or so, some of the evidence for the extreme harm the wholesale adoption of AI is causing to the environment, to wealth concentration, democratic processes, political stability, copyright and IP ethics, etc. I asked if he thought AI should come with a price tag reflecting the currently-externalized costs. Of course he said that wasn't realistic. No surprises.
The surprise is that nobody else said jack shit about any of this before, during, or after my comment. This is in keeping with other conversations I've had with fellow faculty: 95% of them seem to have immediately flipped to "go along to get along" and "ignore the weirdo saying unpleasant things."
My partner said she was recently in a state government workers' webinar with dozens of attendees about similar topics. One person asked a question very similar to mine: how do you balance the benefits of AI with its clear, extreme harms? The presenter apparently completely ignored the question and went on as if nobody had spoken.
I don't care is someone stole some old stones from the Louvre. The world is burning. Museums will literally burn in the not so far future.
In a world without food diamonds are worthless.
My grandpa lived to 96. Until about 94 or so he was incredibly mentally acute. Just rock solid. Then it started slipping and the last months he'd just start rambling about whatever came to mind.
Trump in this speech to the military leaders sounds the same or perhaps even worse. Guy is way far down this path.
The big difference? My grandpa was a farmer in Wyoming. This guy is the president...
20% von Irlands Stromverbrauch geht auf das Konto von KI Rechenzentren?!? What the fuck...
Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’ – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/08/09/karen-hao-on-ai-tech-bosses-many-choose-not-to-have-children-because-they-dont-think-the-world-is-going-to-be-around-much-longer/
The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good