Move Along, Nothing to See Here. AI Won't Hurt You (Unless It's Necessary To Stay Plugged In.)

Genuine democracy and not a billionaire class must control when and where and why we use AI

A report on AI is truly alarming:

New research from Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI firms, shows that LLMs from various companies have an increased willingness to push ethical boundaries. These models will dodge safeguards intended to curtail such behaviour, deceive users about what they're doing, steal restricted data that they shouldn't access and, in one extreme scenario, turn off the oxygen in a room with a (fictional) human that's getting in their way.

Well that all seems very cheery and nothing to be concerned about. The tech industry is currently locked in something of an AI arms race, where models are improving at pace thanks to an unholy cocktail of increased autonomy, more access to computing power, and more advanced models.

Not only is AI dangerous, it hogs GINORMOUS amounts of energy and water that a genuine democracy would likely want to devote to very different purposes that benefit ordinary people instead of the richest ones. To see how incredibly much energy AI uses, read this MIT article, the first part of which spells it out (while the rest of the article goes on and on and on.)

Another article discusses both the enormous energy and also water consumption of AI:

Please read my earlier posts on AI:

Robots & AI In an Egalitarian versus Class Inequality Society

In an egalitarian society robots & AI would do only what egalitarians WANT them to do, and nothing else; unlike today. But WHAT do we WANT them to do?

Stop the De-Humanization of Our World: Stop Robots Answering When We Call Corporations, Stop Self-Service Check-Out Machines in Stores, Stop AI Fake Human Actors in Films. What's Next? Robot Nurses?

The rich—the ruling billionaire plutocracy—want to robotize our world, to make the rich richer, while treating us like dirt. This is what the rich intend to do with AI. Let’s not let them do it. Let’s aim for a genuine democracy to make the important decisions in our society, including about AI. To make this happen we need to remove the rich from power. Read here how you can help make that happen.