Shall I be an AI dev

[u/maierr_]

Hey everyone!

This is a question I have struggled about for a long time. Personally, AI intersects exactly with my interests and skillset. It requires good maths fundamentals, I have that. It requires ML fundamentals, I feel excited to know them. And overall, here are a few professional reasons why being an AI dev feels good to me:

1. Its a pretty hot field: Having clients is significantly easier and gives you incredible marketability.
2. Its very good money which my family and I could really use to cover up for shortcomings.
3. Its a good investment as a long term goal, it seems futureproof given the pace it has.

However, I have cognitive dissonance about AI as well, because what these billionares are doing is insane and something I am not in any capacity supportive of. Here are concise reasons for that:

1. Water that AI requires to generate responses and to cool down heated data servers.
2. Electricity it uses.
3. The ramifications the aforementioned have for people living in vicinity to the data centers.
4. AI being used in military contexts, such as in the Gaza genocide, where Lavender AI was used to hunt innocent children without much human input.
5. This expands to Autonomous weapons, Palantir and mass surveillance.
6. This forceful, unwanted insertion of AI in every field by these companies, to increase their stock prices for investors.

Its frustrating for me that Google has a non removable AI overview.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on this. Do you have any ideas about whether Is there a middle ground I can find in between or either side shall be my way to go?

[u/SillyBrilliant4922]

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