I’ve been listening to this video breaking down Mo Gawdat’s “Scary Smart” and honestly I’m terrified for what’s coming. Gawdat, a former Google X exec, argues that superintelligent AI is coming and we need to raise it with the right values. But his solution is individual consciousness and meditation, not collective action.

Meanwhile, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and the rest are locked in a race to the bottom, building more powerful AI systems with zero democratic input. The same corporations that brought us surveillance capitalism, algorithmic management of warehouse workers, and AI tools that displace creative workers are now deciding the future of superintelligence.

The working class — the people who will actually live or die by these systems — have no seat at the table. We’re told to “become more conscious” while boardrooms make existential decisions behind closed doors.

So my question: how do we actually democratize AI development? Or are we just going to sit down and hope for the best while capital gambles with the future of humanity?

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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        3 days ago

        You are pointing at a remote potential you consider inevitable and saying condescendingly “Well of course this will happen!?”.

        The burden of proof is on you.

        • Jorvex609@piefed.zipOPEnglish
          37·
          3 days ago

          I don’t have a crystal ball, as you said I’m speculating and you somehow expect me to provide proof on something that is yet to pass.

          • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
            51·
            3 days ago

            I expect people not to spread disinformation about technology that sells a scifi fantasy as an inevitability just around the corner without providing any proof that it will happen.

            You are bullshitting, stop bullshitting.

            • Jorvex609@piefed.zipOPEnglish
              37·
              3 days ago

              I’m posting on a forum, not a wiki, I’m not going to put more than a few minutes of work on a post. Fuck off and go bother someone else.

            • Jorvex609@piefed.zipOPEnglish
              36·
              3 days ago

              I think it’s an inevitability. Stop telling people what they can or cannot do.

              • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
                52·
                3 days ago

                No one cares what your vibe opinions about AI are especially if you will not give even a shred of evidence to back up your assertations.

                Incredible claims require incredible evidence… do you really not know that basic aspect about rational discussion?