• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        38
        ·
        4 months ago

        It’s legit scary to see tech approach the point where private companies might develop systems that could and in some way are endangering humanity as a species, and all their decision-makers are concerned with is corporate success.

        • No_Eponym@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          20
          ·
          4 months ago

          … to see tech approach the point…

          Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.

          • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            22
            ·
            4 months ago

            Not to mention literally researching global warming before anyone else bothered, verifying it is happening and that humanity is causing it, then spending decades gaslighting our entire species into widely believing it isn’t.

        • Sabata@ani.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          4 months ago

          Give it a few years and they will get a military contract to endanger humanity more efficiently.