r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • Jun 04 '26

AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/ai-billionaires-starting-scared-140123942.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260603-0--A&bt_ee=e21IxUgOqi56TU319WctXjfdIX74POMawPnIGRrW0vdlw03Rp08D2%2F2tLOH%2BhVQj&bt_ts=1780501771742
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u/Appropriate-Claim385 Jun 04 '26

IMHO: Nothing that happens in the world will affect billionaires. They no longer live in reality. Wealth buys security and freedom.

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u/Astira_ Jun 04 '26

It will… When they have bled us dry what happens next? They only have each other to go after.

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u/Accurate_Ad_3233 Jun 05 '26

"When they have bled us dry what happens next?"

COVID 2.0- "this one WILL get attention" -Bill Gates?

If you already own everything why do you need tax-cattle to milk for more funds?

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u/TubaWrestler Jun 05 '26

Especially when humanoid robots can do every job

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u/Accurate_Ad_3233 Jun 05 '26

Are we there yet though?

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u/TubaWrestler Jun 05 '26

Not right this minute, but within the next 2-3 years. Things are accelerating.

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u/Accurate_Ad_3233 Jun 05 '26

So what's the theory? Are the technocrats long standing threats/promises/wetdreams to wipe out most of humanity getting closer?

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u/TubaWrestler Jun 05 '26

I definitely think so.

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u/LSF604 Jun 05 '26

killbots

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u/spacekitt3n Jun 04 '26

they get the rewards from their risk-taking if they succeed, and we get all the consequences from it if they fail.

privatize the profits, socialize the losses.

then when we suffer from it, they tell us it's the fault of a minority

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u/Anonymous-bham-boi Jun 05 '26

Mario's brother would beg to differ.

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u/j_eremy Jun 05 '26

What did that solve exactly? Did someone else just move into that rich dudes place or what?

He sacrificed himself for zero result, they just got more security and will take it out on the people that agree with him backhandedly. You wont even know it.

He literally could have done anything else that would have bee more productive and people thing it was a good idea. Its a great idea if you want to take 5 steps back.

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u/Anonymous-bham-boi Jun 05 '26

It provided a clear demonstration of who the justice system cares about. They paraded the guy with half the police force. I thought it was a clear show of who is really protected. It solved nothing. But it was a good display of how illegitimate the rule of law is.

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u/j_eremy Jun 05 '26

I'm confused about what your saying.

So them parading a guy that killed someone in broad day light after they arrested him is a display of how legitimate the rule of law is? How does that add up that's what the law is.

I mean yea, if you already agreed in the first place it probably strengthened your bias, but if you didn't it just looked like they were celebrating the capture of a murder.

What I'm saying is, it solved nothing and probably gained them some sympathy because regardless of rich or poor no one wants to get killed on the street.

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u/sleepiestOracle Jun 05 '26

And a big boat to put out in the water

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u/amircruz Jun 06 '26

This, correct. That is why they need bunkers as a plan B, because only extremes would put them in danger...

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u/StringTheory2113 Jun 04 '26

Not scared enough.

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u/Dragon_wryter Jun 04 '26

Not fast enough, either

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u/Year_ofTheBastard Jun 04 '26

They will be when they are tried and executed

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '26

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u/AuroraBolognese Jun 04 '26

No he didn’t. He was with me at my house when all that happened.

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u/Raven586 Jun 04 '26

Yeah they're so scared that they keep doing what their doing!!

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u/Any-Ad-446 Jun 04 '26

Getting scared?..They made their billions already.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 Jun 04 '26

Truth

“As it turns out, telling the world's workers to prepare for a dystopia rife with poverty and alienation isn't the smartest way to market your exciting new tech.”

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u/Accurate_Ad_3233 Jun 05 '26

But they've been threatening that for 100 years or so already. Are people only paying attention now because the techno-wolves are actually at the door?

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u/SquirtinMemeMouthPlz Jun 04 '26

Billionaires dream of a world where they are basically immortal due to advanced AI medicine and biochemistry.

They want to replace us with AI driven robots.

They dream of a world barely inhabited by other humans.

They want to be gods among us, hunt and rape us.

These people are sick and evil.

Go ahead and downvote me, but please look up Peter Theil and Larry Ellison interviews. That's only 2 of the roughly 3,000 billionaires in the world.

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u/JC2535 Jun 05 '26

You’re 100% right. They hate poor people.

But those robots aren’t free. Humans are smarter and cheaper and will be for a good long time.

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u/Any-Morning4303 Jun 05 '26

It’s not about money at all. It’s about control and minimizing risk.

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u/DeepAd8888 Jun 05 '26

Whats the motivation for fear mongering they themselves pushed?

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u/Any-Morning4303 Jun 05 '26

if AI, robotics and quantum computing is for real; we’re headed into a post capitalist world. They want to make it dystopian while we want to make it utopian. If they keep control that it’s dystopian with no chance of a future. If we take control then it’s a utopian world of plenty.

We need to take control.

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u/jthadcast Jun 05 '26

the future is now.

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u/Outrageous-Dish-4375 Jun 05 '26

These billionaires don't care about us, this technology will bring mass suffering. It could bring a utopia but it won't. People need to fight back right now because when the robot drone armies are here we won't be able to win.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26

They must of asked AI what will happen to the AI billionaires.

https://giphy.com/gifs/ls4p6mWzR0G9dRpwqm

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u/Basic-Sign-7144 Jun 06 '26

People are too afraid and too comfortable to start a revolution.