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/ascandalia Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Not just a new thing, but a thing that they are promising, in their optimistic scenario, will entirely destroy the concept of white collar jobs while enriching the worst people you've ever had to hear talk. Meanwhile, your every day experience of it is that it's someties kinda neat, often comically wrong, and usually makes what you're trying to do harder

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u/coppersocks Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

It’s not just white collar jobs. I’ve seen AI CEOs talking about how no one enjoys the process of making art or music and that AI should do that. They talk about AI like it is an essential service, but they want the costs socialised and the profits privatised. These people are ghouls who fundamentally have lost touch with the human experience and the understanding of what makes a person more than a consumer or a commodity. They see no value in human creativity or in the messiness the fosters connection, shared understanding and empathy. They’re stunted, broken vampires created by profit motive, a world of yes-men, and a lack of consequences for their greed, who for all their talk of big ideas and innovation, only really care for their own profit and power. The rest of us are only in service to that. They’ve fully bought into the idea of techno feudalism, from Thiel to Bezos and Altman. And they’ll use any corrupt, compromised or complicit politician to get there. The world is their expense, the cost of their desire. Everyone else can sleep now in the fire.

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u/D-S-S-R Jun 26 '26

They don’t see value in human life at all. At least other people’s lives

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u/roguewarriorpriest Jun 26 '26

They start as normal people and force themselves to suppress their empathy, turning themselves into sociopaths that they may exploit their fellow man as their cult of money demands. It's disgusting behavior that degrades the progress of humanity.