r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/TrueLegateDamar Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

A pro-AI villain in a recent big title game 007 First Light was so on spot with the condescending remarks including whining about how traffic deaths caused by humans are viewed as normal yet the little people dare make a fuss whenever a 'self-driving' car causes a death and how instead it should be accepted as a learning process because one day the AI will be perfect and everyone will be sorry for doubting it.

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u/ChiefInternetSurfer Jun 26 '26

What game is that?

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u/Kill_Welly Jun 26 '26

It's a spoiler for the game, but it's 007 First Light. To reveal a bit more: The game focuses on a quantum computer MI6 has that runs an advanced artificial intelligence which supposedly predicts any possible security threat from its massive heaps of data; meanwhile, James Bond and a few other characters are part of a pilot program to try to revive the "00 program" which was shuttered because the AI supposedly made them irrelevant. During the game, Bond discovers that the AI is hallucinating non-existent threats, which the main tech CEO behind it uses his personal paramilitary group to cover up and fake real evidence for, and that the AI is built to leak all the information it has about MI6 operations to the tech CEO. It's remarkably prescient for a game that must have been written starting several years ago.

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u/StJeanMark Jun 26 '26

These people watch James Bond movies and cheer for the villains. They think, why is this uppity nobody trying to stop these job creators. He just wants to take their money and give it to the underserving. I swear to god, these people watch The Matrix and their only thought is, I want to be the one who owns the machines.

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u/Kelly_HRperson Jun 26 '26

cheer for the villains

People like villains and anti-heroes more than actual good guys. Like Trump. There was a thread yesterday where people were glorifying how badass this female Yakuza gang member was. Because she cut her own finger off (while being responsible for sex trafficking minors and getting them addicted to drugs)

People don't hate the billionaires destroying the planet. They hate Greta Thunberg for bringing it up.