US senator Bernie Sanders amplified his recent criticism of artificial intelligence on Sunday, explicitly linking the financial ambition of “the richest people in the world” to economic insecurity for millions of Americans – and calling for a potential moratorium on new datacenters.
Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democratic party, said on CNN’s State of the Union that he was “fearful of a lot” when it came to AI. And the senator called it “the most consequential technology in the history of humanity” that will “transform” the US and the world in ways that had not been fully discussed.
“If there are no jobs and humans won’t be needed for most things, how do people get an income to feed their families, to get healthcare or to pay the rent?” Sanders said. “There’s not been one serious word of discussion in the Congress about that reality.”
You also need it to pop so the billionaires who want to gatekeep and control the future of AI (in order to make sure their names are attached to that future) can be knocked off the fucking pedestal they keep trying to place themselves on. They suck and they’re making everything else suck too.
Imagine how much weirder and shittier the U.S. would currently be if only Steve Jobs and a handful of out of touch billionaires had been given this much fucking control of all future technology in the 80s.
As if attaching yourself to something successful before anyone else did a long fucking time ago, then gives you some kind of lifetime special status allowing you to decide what’s best for all of humanity. Like it’s only reasonable you be allowed to ignore whatever regulations you want while using your power to enforce other regulations that protect your monopoly. You’re not being a self centered prick, you’re “saving humanity from stagnation,” while somehow being completely oblivious you and your mediocre state protected monopolies are the fucking stagnation that is plaguing society and fucking decimating hundreds of years of progress as fast as you possibly can.