Geoffrey Hinton, who is known as the godfather of AI, used his 2024 Nobel Prize acceptance speech not to celebrate his creation but to warn humanity of its risks:
“AI is already being used by authoritarian governments for mass surveillance. In the near future, AI will be used to create new viruses and lethal weapons that decide by themselves who to kill or maim.
There is also a long-term existential threat that will arise…We now have evidence that AI created by companies motivated by short-term profits will not prioritize the safety of humanity. We need research on how to prevent these AI beings from taking control. They are no longer science fiction.”
When the pioneer of AI is warning humanity about the existential dangers of his own creation it’s time not just to listen, but to take action by stopping the one thing the billionaires need to power the dystopian AI world they’re trying to create: Data Centers.
Artificial intelligence is "incredibly unpopular technology" that is essentially being forced on people, says writer @astradisastra. Data centers are facing stiff resistance in communities across the United States, providing "local choke points where people can come together and push back on the billionaire Big Tech agenda."
Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket.
The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.
I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.
It gets worse when you find out she said this to arts and humanities graduates who are about to enter the workspace while it's facing higher rates of unemployment due to corporate greed using AI to replace them.
Incredibly insensitive and out of touch as a graduation speech.
ya know, these posts are actually quite revealing: their agenda is truly just to destroy education. and once they sabotage about as much as they can, they’re left with not much else to do but post pictures of cartoon characters because they aren’t trying to build anything at all
Just to help add commentary here: the ruling elite love it when the bottom 99% is in debt because debt is a form of social control. You're less likely to protest, join a union, start a family, care about your neighbor, raise your voice or do ~anything~ when you're deep in debt.
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AI data centers are putting strain on electric grids— forcing your bills to skyrocket.
The average electricity bill this summer is projected to rise by nearly 9% to $778.
The NYT says to help keep your utility bill low, people should "use fans" to cool down. Can't make this up.
Fantastic clip here of folks with no grip on reality. Community college *also* costs money. Most of the people graduating from Harvard don't come out with debt. Cuban—as a billionaire—could simply say student debt should be canceled, not lecture poor people for being poor.