This is why I’ve refused to buy into the argument from these ghouls that AI would make the world a better place, and their occasional lip-service of requesting AI regulation for “human safety”: their own actions paint a dystopian world of mass surveillance, even heavier labor exploitation, the return of company scrip and stores, and the wholesale neglect of human well-being, all while blocking the very regulation they claim to want and/or need to succeed safely.

If these people genuinely believed in the good of AI, they wouldn’t be blocking meaningful regulation of it.

https://green.spacedino.net/ai-will-never-create-utopia/

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terribleidea 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> their clamoring for AI regulation for “human safety”

> they wouldn’t be blocking regulation of it

Which is it? Do they want regulation or not?

The answer is, in fact, they do want regulation. They want to define the terms of the regulations to gain a competitive advantage.

	▲	stego-tech 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s quite literally the point I was making. They’re lying to everyone while demanding protective backstops for their highly speculative investment. None of these companies, investors, or executives are making AI that’s actually going to improve humanity. They never, ever were, and people need to stop taking them at their word that they are.