> If it weren’t US companies, it would be others.

There is something deeply rotten about the US mindset though, them being American is definitely a problem.

> Look at what happened with fossil fuels.

The west had a 100 years head start, on top of that these countries are producing everything you consume, don't start pointing fingers. Chinese current co2 per capita is the same as the US in 1900

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andsoitis 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> There is something deeply rotten about the US mindset

What is that “something”?

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carlosjobim 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I remember reading about the development of neural networks in a magazine from the 1980s.

Releasing artificial intelligence for the use of all of humanity is better than it being controlled by one or more shadow groups. That's what the Americans did, and the Chinese followed in.

Had AI been invented in the 20th century, it would have been kept secret and used only by state actors to facilitate genocides at mass scales. But we live in different times.

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hattmall 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

How can "AI" facilitate genocide? Like what might chatgpt have suggested that would have made the nazis more effective or the khmer rouge.

	▲	sneak 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Widespread mass realtime facial recognition usage is allowing governments to target and repress subsets of the population with an unprecedented scale and efficiency. ICE are flying facial recognition drones over sidewalks in downtown LA. Dissdents are having their facial geometries entered into secret databases simply based on political opinions.
	▲	carlosjobim 22 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Any new technology throughout history has first been used for war and genocide. How could modern AI have helped those groups you mention in their endeavour? Really fucking easy and effectively, and you don't need a lot of imagination to think of how. From surveillance and interrogation to pinpoint determination of ethnicity and much more. Not to mention translation between human languages.

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233mhz an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Releasing artificial intelligence for the use of all of humanity is better than it being controlled by one or more shadow groups. That's what the Americans did

Uh? In what universe are openai and anthropic not shadow groups?

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carlosjobim an hour ago | parent [-]

Are you misunderstanding on purpose? OpenAI and Anthropic let the public use their AI models. Shadow groups would mean that people wouldn't even know about the existence of AI.

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233mhz 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

> OpenAI and Anthropic let the public use their AI models.

Oh, how nice of them, such charitable souls...

	▲	carlosjobim 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Cool snark. I said it's better that all humanity have access to use AI rather than just a few people. That's pretty nice, compared to the alternative. But if you're an angry hacker in full on culture war witch hunter mode, then of course nobody can say something that's even slightly different than full-on hate without you interpreting that as aligning with the evil witch.