The world's tech billionaires are starting to moderate their rhetoric on AI automation, but that doesn't mean it's all in good faith.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/2771990

As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.

  • Lost_My_MindM
    411·
    2 days ago

    I can tell you grew up watching Mr Rodgers.

    I mean that as a compliment by the way.

    • captainlezbian
      6·
      1 day ago

      I feel like that should be taken as a compliment regardless of how it’s meant

    • tomkattEnglish
      33·
      2 days ago

      I did, him and Bob Ross. They’re both missed, and I hope their syndication can be a benefit to young people today. (Edit - though from what I’ve seen, the kids are alright. Certainly more compassionate and empathetic today than my cohort or generations before).

      Not sure if the shows still air, but some is on YouTube, and I donate to PBS monthly just in case.

      • Lost_My_MindM
        19·
        2 days ago

        Yeah. I grew up thinking all generations hate the younger generations. Then the younger generations get older and hate the younger younger generations.

        Nope. Turns out that was just a boomer thing. Gen X typically doesn’t have opinions on anything. Millenials just hate the boomers, and Gen-Z just straight up aren’t having kids.

        But I’m whats called a Xenial. Half genX, half millenial. And I’ve never thought of the younger generations as bad. I feel bad for them. 40 years before their birth, the world wasn’t a huge dumpster fire. And then reagan happened, and things have been sliding downward ever since. By the time Gen-Z was born, it was already too late. Then on top of that, their childhood was centered around covid, and now trump being a massive dick. Just in general, at all times.

        So I don’t get mad at the younger generations. I kinda feel bad for them. The world sucks, and it’s the only world they’ve ever known.

        • MulligrubsEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Gen X typically doesn’t have opinions on anything

          We have opinions on everything, trust me.

          We don’t advertise them as much. We were the last generation that was told to be seen, and not heard, maybe that’s why. Or, perhaps it’s because we were the first of the screwed generations and we’re nihilistic. Or both. Or neither.

          It doesn’t matter. None of this matters.

        • tomkattEnglish
          10·
          2 days ago

          I don’t get mad at the younger generations. I kinda feel bad for them. The world sucks, and it’s the only world they’ve ever known.

          Pretty much. I’m in my 40s, late millennial. Shit sucked, watching opportunities previous generations had slipping away as I hit adulthood and realized what an absolute mess everything was, and that everything I’d been taught to succeed at life was a lie.

          Ended up doing okay for myself thanks to getting into IT and dropping out of college before I racked up more debt but it still took forever to pay off. I managed to get to six figures a few years back, pay off my debts, and I’m able to make things work financially thanks to moving to the boonies and living small, and saving a lot. I also lucked out with good timing and had a home built when the interest rates were still around 3% and paid points to lower it more. My mortgage now is less than I paid in rent in 2021, and rates are up since then.

          And now… I mean I’m okay, but seeing everything happening is stressful. No idea how future employment is gonna go with all the AI mess (I’m sure I’ll be fine, but it’s all up on air):, and I don’t think the kids today will even have the opportunities that I had early career when I took jobs that were shitty but at least gave me opportunities to learn and skill up and get various career certs to move up and do better.

          I was lamenting the lack of opportunities back then, feeling like I was always one step ahead of inflation, debt, and potential homelessness, and it’s even harder for today’s young adults! I honestly don’t know how someone not already established would even get a foot in the door today, and everything’s gone absolutely crazy.

          • nkat2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Tomkatt, I love the way you write and the concerns you expressed for our youth today.

            I fully agree with everything you’ve said and I just need to reach out to tell you that you are a great human being.

            All the best, be well, and let’s hope things work out for the common man. Thanks again!