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Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity (www.theguardian.com)

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I have a lot of respect for Bernie Sanders, but he has a trash take on AI.

Headlines like this are exactly what AI companies and techbros want, they want us to be afraid, they want us to be against AI because "it is too powerful", it is an obvious grift, arguably the most basic form of mass advertisement and Bernie falls right for it while amplifying the advertising with his platform.

We should halt AI development because it is economic fraud and environmentally catastrophic, not because it works, it doesn't work for shit given the energy and time required to produce a result worth using.

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[–] Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I like Bernie and he is not wrong but this is screaming for a particular gif:

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago

It still needs to be said. I doubt he's under any illusions about how the techbros will respond.