“.. the anxiety, including from serious people in the world of AI, about human extinction feel like religious hysteria to you?
What drives me crazy about this is that this is my world. I talk to the people who believe that stuff all the time, and increasingly, a lot of them believe that it would be good to wipe out people and that the AI future would be a better one, and that we should wear a disposable temporary container for the birth of AI.”

https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/407154/jaron-lanier-ai-religion-progress-criticism

#butlerianJihad

Will AI become God? That’s the wrong question.

Tech pioneer Jaron Lanier argues for a different way to think about AI.

Vox

@gilduran

Yeah, there really is an alliance between end days people and the tescreal folk.

One party sees the other as useful idiot, but so long as they advanced a common agenda of global genocide, they have every reason to work together.

And then you get the crazy people running Israel and their own agenda

All of this reminds me of the scheming that went on between Hitler and Stalin, each saw the other as a stepping stone to global domination.