With the nascent regulatory framework shitcanned by the felon, protection against the worst of AI is currently non-existent.

That is a problem given the demonstrated lack of ethics of the conglomerates in charge.

You might want to make this podcast part of your listening repertoire. To reap the benefits, We the People MUST be a lot more tuned in and get serious about demanding guardrails.

https://www.humanetech.com/podcast

You will have a very different view.

I have over the years, seen the same claims made for everything from networks to desktop publishing to the Internet, mobile phones, cloud computing, data science, self-driving vehicles, drones, the Internet of Things, the metaverse, bitcoin, and generative AI. The same breathless claims, the same impacts, the same FOMO. In almost every case, the hype collapsed into investors losing millions or billions of dollars, a lot of technical people were fired because they just "won't be needed anymore", and then, a few years later, a quiet hiring spree occurs because it turns out that "fill in the blank" technology really doesn't solve everything. GenAI/Agentic Programming/etc. is on the exact same trajectory. In the end, a couple of big companies will go out of business because they couldn't fulfill their promises or were involved in shady accounting that caught up with them, and most of what had been touted as the wave of the future became commodity software or hardware. It will still be there - AI isn't going to go away - but I see it eventually becoming ubuquitous and probably heavily distributed.

He conveyed this in the same hushed tone Mr. McGuire delivered advice to Benjamin Braddock... "plastics." Feeding the masses and curing cancer will just remove population inhibitors. The oligarchs in charge will cure their own cancer - thank you, not yours. The same assholes that are breathlessly pushing AI were perfectly fine with Trump killing USAID which was actually preventing death. There are emails to Epstein by at least one academic opining that climate change should take care of human population growth. Unlike the Chinese open source AI models, ours are built wastefully (on purpose) to consume more "tokens." What US AI will do is usher in a surveillance state like you never imagined. Unless you are rich or a useful slave there will no place for you here. MRNA vaccines hold tremendous promise - but that didn't stop Trump et al. from defunding federal funding for it. So, in case I haven't made it clear, the super rich tech bros driving this shit don't give a flying fuck about your better world - except for themselves. If I have a cockroach problem do I leave food out for them? The plan ain't what you think it is.

the AI bros behind it. The robber barons who trained the flawed, hallucinating tech via the theft of the world's intellectual property, with no intention of ever compensating all those whose work they stole. And no jntention, either, of ever helping provide a UBI for the hundreds of millions if not billions they expect to end up unemployed.

The AI bros already know generative AI is dumbing down users, wrecking education, harming both the natural environment and our information ecosystem, enabling all sorts of misinformation and deepfakes (including deepfake porn) and scams and fraud, creating a very dangerous financial bubble, worsening wealth inequality with much worse to come, making 24/7 surveillance of everyone possible (any authoritarian's dream), and speeding up weaponry with the added "bonus" of hallucinations that can kill people they never intended to kill, or wrongly intended to kill because the AI hallucinated and chose the wrong targets, or because it escalated responses to the point where - whoops! - World War Three or last. Which former Google CEO Erjc Schmidt admitted could be over in a few minutes, thanks to AI.

The AI bros don't care about any of those harms. They're dreaming of a future where they control their own network states (read Gil Duran) and where they're first to develop a magic superintelligent AI that will also magically decide to reward its relatively stupid creators with godlike powers and immortality, most likely via some sort of fusion with the machine.

The AI bros will admit superintelligent AI might wipe out humanity, too.

They don't care, if there's even the slightest chance they'll get there first and it will be the kindly magical AI they're dreaming of.

OK, then. I see.

AI makes people stupid. Lots of studies on this. If we outsource our ability to reason and to solve hard problems, we will lose those skills.