What should we do about AI?

[BrightShinyGirl]

Oh I know there's no stopping it at this point. But I do believe it has the high potential to wreak havoc on the human race and the world with irreversible, unimaginable devastation. To what extent and what it will look like, I'm not sure but I don't want to see how that will all happen when it does. I hate that my kids will be growing up in the midst of it

It’s not AI that will wreak the destruction, but the tech bros who are backing it. The best way to stop them is to hasten the pop of the AI bubble.

 

[Wilson23]

Explore each and every corner of its sexual potential (horse-hung cyborgs, customizable-breast options, Wet Dream Machines), and then leave it abandoned on the side of the road with a note on the windshield saying “sry busted.”

They don’t have me working on National Defense I’ll never know…

That's one of those things that inevitably WILL happen, but it won't have much bearing on technological unemployment, except that of prostitutes and exotic dancers.

And porn stars -- they're in as much danger as mainstream actors of being replaced by AI.

 

[OhMatilda]

Oh look, another empty marble sack.

The fuck?

 

[Wilson23]

The fuck?

He's just pissed because you take de money and run Venezuela.

 

[OhMatilda]

Oh well shit I didn’t know he wanted to come along. I spent it all before I got there anyway. Gourmet Donkey Show. Great seats.

 

[Chadrone]

Liar.

Nope.

You Deplorables have zero issue with government controlling people's lives as long as it's your preferred version of it.

You mean stopping the fraud and criminality you and yours are all about??

Yea.....that's the whole fucking point of having a government.

If they won't at least stop you, then we don't have any use for them.

This has been proven in no uncertain terms.

The only thing that has been proven here is that you're triggered by someone not worshiping your PRESCIOUS government.

 

[eric_erosfan]

That is, how to deal with the threat of technological unemployment it poses?

I see no way but Universal Basic Income.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income

There will be an issue very soon with households that are trying to live on reduced incomes. The promise of a comfortable upper middle-class life was the lure for many Americans getting into computer science and engineering. I will share an inside secret. Not everyone in this field is Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds. But even the lower tier software developers were useful for certain tasks and still allowed them a good living. It is those lower tier employees and entry-level workers most affected. The only way a software developer becomes experienced and high performing is to have the opportunity with an entry-level position. A four year degree in STEM is not a constant keg party. It is hard work. Now they are rewarded with reduced job opportunities. A horse and carriage operator can adapt to an automobile much easier than a software developer can adapt to roofing. But whatever they change to will not pay the salary a software developer is used to.

 

[RoryN]

You Deplorables have zero issue with government controlling people's lives as long as it's your preferred version of it. This has been proven in no uncertain terms.

You mean stopping the fraud and criminality you and yours are all about?? Yea.....that's the whole fucking point of having a government.

...and proven yet again by your response above.

Thanks for playing.

 

[Wilson23]

There will be an issue very soon with households that are trying to live on reduced incomes. The promise of a comfortable upper middle-class life was the lure for many Americans getting into computer science and engineering. I will share an inside secret. Not everyone in this field is Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds. But even the lower tier software developers were useful for certain tasks and still allowed them a good living. It is those lower tier employees and entry-level workers most affected. The only way a software developer becomes experienced and high performing is to have the opportunity with an entry-level position. A four year degree in STEM is not a constant keg party. It is hard work. Now they are rewarded with reduced job opportunities. A horse and carriage operator can adapt to an automobile much easier than a software developer can adapt to roofing. But whatever they change to will not pay the salary a software developer is used to.

What you're talking about here is tech bros as a potential political faction -- but what politics those have is traditionally Libertarian -- would they get behind UBI even if they could see it as solving problems?

 

[Bray123]

No need, not anymore than we needed to do something about the "threat" of the automobile's invention and all the unemployment that caused.

The only thing "needed" is to take the governemnt boot off the peoples throat.

Agreed. Go tell that to the felonious grifting pedophile asshole with his boot on the throat of the people.

 

[Chadrone]

...and proven yet again by your response above.

Thanks for playing.

No different than you and the comrades of the TOTALITARIAN GOD STATE!!! LOL

 

[Wilson23]

Everything about this thread is based on AI as it is NOW.

If they ever develop STRONG AI, fully self-aware like a human -- that changes the whole game.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

 

[eric_erosfan]

What you're talking about here is tech bros as a potential political faction -- but what politics those have is traditionally Libertarian -- would they get behind UBI even if they could see it as solving problems?

The problem with UBI is if everyone has that income the cost of basic goods and services people need will go up by exactly the same amount. Supply and demand.

I have no idea why any government would favor UBI over supporting educated and trained citizens working good paying jobs. And not allowing AI to destroy the industry that drove job growth and socio-economic upward mobility for the past 5 decades.

 

[Wilson23]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1046:_Skynet

 

[Wilson23]

The problem with UBI is if everyone has that income the cost of basic goods and services people need will go up by exactly the same amount. Supply and demand.

No, it can be done while maintaining a constant money supply. It's a matter of DISTRIBUTION.

 

[Chadrone]

I have no idea why any government would favor UBI over supporting educated and trained citizens working good paying jobs.

Because that's capitalist oppression.

With socialism everyone gets to just order door dash and jerk off on the internet 24/7....why wouldn't you want that??

That's a far right Nazi hell. We can't just allow people to be PRODUCTIVE and USEFUL!!! That creates inequity and makes degenerate leftist look bad. Can't have that comrade....

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

just hope there is no tech company actually called skynet

 

[Wilson23]

Everyone Knows It's a Bubble. What Happens Now?

 

[RoryN]

Posted 1/2/2026

Everyone Knows It's a Bubble.

Fast forward to today: A.I. is starting to bring in serious revenue.

That's not very bubbly.

 

[Annabelle1990]

That is, how to deal with the threat of technological unemployment it poses?

I see no way but Universal Basic Income.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income

The first time somebody was afraid automation would end labor was when the ancient Sumerians invented the shovel. AI has the potential to make people vastly more efficient but it will not replace people. There will be new jobs for people to move into, possibly in industries that don't even exist yet.

For the Sumerians, they dealt with the ability to move more dirt with fewer people by inventing the brick.

 

[RoryN]

The first time somebody was afraid automation would end labor was when the ancient Sumerians invented the shovel. AI has the potential to make people vastly more efficient but it will not replace people.

You aren't taking into account the all-important X factor of how people in power will use and deploy it.

The creators and owners of this technology have said themselves that your scenario will only come to pass if it is deployed with a moral and ethical compass - or at least with the foresight into the advantages of efficiency vs replacing humans in positions altogether.

Everyone knows that's not how it's going to play out.

 

[Annabelle1990]

You're not taking into account the all-important X factor of how people in power will use and deploy it.

The creators and owners of this technology have said themselves that your scenario will only come to pass if it is deployed with a moral and ethical compass - or at least with the foresight into the advantages of efficiency vs replacing humans.

Everyone knows that's not how it's going to play out.

I grew up in that world. People with power don't want to hurt people or screw them over. They want to build things and employ people, and believe it or not but they care about improving lives a great deal. If you want to bitch about people in power, bitch about politicians. Those are the ones screwing everyone over.

 

[RoryN]

People with power don't want to hurt people or screw them over. They want to build things and employ people, and believe it or not but they care about improving lives a great deal.

As an absolute statement - which is the way you present it - this is hilariously myopic.

If you want to bitch about people in power, bitch about politicians. Those are the ones screwing everyone over.

Are you suggesting they're not part of this technology push?

Really?

 

[Annabelle1990]

As an absolute statement - which is the way you present it - this is hilariously myopic.




Are you suggesting they're not part of this technology push?

Really?

I think business people want to use ai to improve efficiencies and make workers more productive. I think politicians want to use ai to censor and control. I think the two are fundamentally different.

And what you call myopic probably represents 99% of the c-level executives you hate so much. They are just people. They get paid well but they are otherwise just like everyone else.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Posted 1/2/2026


Fast forward to today: A.I. is starting to bring in serious revenue.

That's not very bubbly.

The majority of the revenue is still just money being passed around among companies in the industry.