Comment on Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day agoI love this meme format.
Paul Revere: “The British are Coming!”
KBal: “The only reason the British are dangerous is because many humans completely lose their minds when they hear about it.”
kbal@fedia.io 1 day ago
So you're saying that the reason the British Empire conquered the world was that everyone just spontaneously decided that they were so awesome that it made sense to give them all the money and resources, and invite them to run everything?
How is it even possible to be alive in 2026 and not be aware that the rich and powerful have developed a strong tendency to go completely bonkers when the topic of "AI" comes up?
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It is possible. Because the rich and powerful go totally bonkers when AI comes up.
Why do you think the rich are so keen to see it. Sure as hell not to increase the cost of doing business.
I’ll buy AI will never have the power claimed. But it already has the power to replace a metric fuck ton of jobs. And lots of the so called rich and powerful are working fucking hard to make sure folks feel comfortable relying on it.
You have to be pretty blind to think they are doing that for any other reason then to enhance there own position on the inequality scale.
kbal@fedia.io 1 day ago
"AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job."
The typical return on investment for spending on AI is zero.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Oh no, I agree that the rich have invested too much into AI to have no choice but to evangelize its usage. I just took issue with your framing that humans in general are stupid when it comes to perceived threats, and used a famous line before an invasion to punctuate it
kbal@fedia.io 23 hours ago
The madness we collectively suffer from with respect to AI comes from vastly exaggerated estimates of its powers, mainly by those who covet the power they think it will give them. That's all my original comment was intending to say.
Those who are credulous enough to shun AI because they fear that it will soon enslave humanity by the sheer force of its magnificently irresistible intellectual superpowers are also around, but although the pervasive criti-hype is exhausting, it's obviously not the cause of our current troubles. If that's what you thought I was talking about, perhaps you are among them?
Anyway I can't believe the mania hasn't burnt itself out yet. Maybe next year.
tetris11@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
Who am I, but a servant of the great powers sent to dismantle your impassable fortitude…
Jesus calm your tits, plenty of people don’t see AI itself as the problem but the way it is currently being wielded, is. The Luddites weren’t anti-machine, they were more than happy to use the new tech, but not for a loss of livelihood. That. That’s what people refer to when they say AI is bad, and I think you know that.