The greatest risk of AI is its ability to hack our finances. One day, we may wake up to find our money has disappeared.
AI is a useful tool, but it is often wrong, and not in shape to be fully trusted.
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The greatest risk of AI is its ability to hack our finances. One day, we may wake up to find our money has disappeared.
AI is a useful tool, but it is often wrong, and not in shape to be fully trusted.
AI companies are buying up books and then shredding them. This could be the biggest ever destruction of a key component of the developed world, going on right underneath us. How is this even allowed to happen?
Imagine needing a subscription to possess the keys to your house. How about your car thinks you're too tired and won't let you drive. Cashless society, say hurty words online, card payments disabled. Not long to go now, the surveillance state will kick things off for real.
AI is selling our own work back to us. They're charging consumers for information they themselves have not paid to acquire. In the near future, all those impacted will demand they be fairly compensated for their work, and that's when the edifice falls apart.
Have you noticed how, suddenly, no one is pushing all that net-zero nonsense? Yeah, turns out priorities have changed and none of that matters. Now, the new shiny thing is AI. It requires huge amounts of energy, so let's burn more coal. You cannot make this up; it is that shameless and utterly corrupt.
AI offers some benefits, but one problem I see is there appears little economic return on the massive infrastructure cost required to bring it on.
This is a classic cost/benefit exercise. We need cheap electricity to provide a low cost economy, powering hospitals, schools and such. If we take the money that could go into these areas, and put it in the hands of the owners of AI, how can we be sure that money will be returned to the investors and society in general?
One option may be to make AI a public good. Make AI like the air we breathe. This would make AI and the code it runs on widely available to all businesses. If not taking this approach, then AI will need to be strictly regulated. For instance, in any area where things become highly technical or subject to opinions, I find AI fails almost every time. AI is usually wrong in those areas. If you need an example, take Kim Kardashian's failing the bar exam and her blaming AI. When looked at, AI was feeding her legal answers that were wrong.
Imagine using AI to build a bridge across a ravine, or designing a passenger airplane. Are you going to trust it? However, I do see a place for robots and AI fetching and carrying, that'd be something both are capable of.
In the below video, Sam Altman's background is closely examined. Is this someone you want your economy invested in?
Keir Starmer has announced plans to make a digital ID mandatory. I expect moves such as this to go global. Our data is needed to be centralised so AI can exploit it.
My view is that AI does offer much, and the likes of Goldman Sachs are running scared as people may use the technology to free themselves.
https://www.cityam.com/goldman-sachs-tony-blair-is-wrong-on-ai-its-not-going-to-save-the-uk-economy/
Goldman Sachs has published a paper stating that AI’s productivity benefits and returns are likely to be significantly more limited than anticipated, while its power demands will be so great that utility companies will have to spend almost 40 per cent more in the next three years to keep up with demand.
Will someone tell these people, enough already!!
Whether you agree with the writer, or not, about Covid, mRNA jabs, mandates and all kinds of psychopathic authoritarianism, he does offer some valid points about the dangers presented by AI.
When it comes to AI, I can see the advantages, and the potential freedom it brings. The powers-that-be, I believe, are scared of the possibilities. But this comes with a warning: imagine your neighbour says to you they have the means to build a nuclear bomb in their garage. Fine, but you'd no doubt reply, why would you?
AI works a bit like that for me: why not just use your own brain?
https://josephsansone.substack.com/p/transhumanism-nightmare-continues
Just about when you think it can’t get any crazier or stupider, well, it does. A Swiss company called Final Spark has developed a much more cost effective way to house artificial intelligence. This company is growing brain matter for the purpose of housing AI. That’s right, brain matter is the hard drive for the AI software. What could go wrong here?
Something to think about, are you happy having earbuds and everyday items scanning your brain?
Sharing this as I agree with every word:
https://news.gab.com/2024/01/ai-as-the-information-war-superweapon/
BUT…
Technology has continued to develop.
AI has the ability to permanently break through the Regime’s control of the internet. This is why Regime-aligned corporations have spent billions to develop AI that is already censored and locked down. They have done this, in advance, because they know the disruptive power of AI is unlike anything that has come before it. They know that AI can be used in a mass media propaganda environment and render all their controls over information totally useless. To return to the analogy of warfare, they have massive armies of millions of troops, tanks, aircraft, artillery, and aircraft carriers which they have wielded against an unarmed populace. But now a superweapon exists which makes all their formidable strength obsolete. You can see why they have devoted tens of billions of dollars to companies like OpenAI, as well as with Meta and Alphabet, to ensure that they are the only ones that have this power.