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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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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who is advising Sanders on AI?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 4 hours ago

he’s met with yud, presumably there’s some others too

[–] lurker@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago

We should halt AI development because it is economic fraud and environmentally catastrophic

This, emphasis on the “environmentally catastrophic” part.

[–] Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

IIRC there is almost nobody in the House of Representatives with Computer Science training and very few with Engineering. A messed-up country! I for one salute our coming Chinese technocrats.

[–] MBM@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

There's a video of Sanders talking to Yudkowsky and it's... something

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The twats in charge right now have already proven they don't care about humanity...

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

And gamers