AI Oligarchs Are Poisoning Our Society – New Issue Of JOHNSTONE
The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This issue features a painting of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
In a recent interview with Time Magazine, Altman said he knows most people hate the technology that he and his fellow tech plutocrats are imposing upon our civilization.
“Clearly, people hate data centers — right now, at least. People are pretty negative on AI,” Altman said.
Indeed, a recent survey conducted by CNBC‘s Generation Labs found that the public is very negative on AI in general and on its CEOs in particular.
CNBC reports:
“A growing part of the economy is artificial intelligence. Almost half of respondents, 45%, said they believe AI will have a negative impact on their careers, while 10% believe it will help them with their careers. An additional 40% said they believe ‘the federal government’ must set rules for AI, while 36% said they believe ‘an independent expert body’ should set the rules of the game. Just 8% said they think AI ‘shouldn’t be regulated.’ A majority, 60%, believe data center construction ‘must be slowed,’ while 15% favor ‘speeding it up.’
“When given the names of nine key people in the AI industry and asked whether they trust each leader to act responsibly on AI, in each case a majority of respondents said they don’t. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella scored the best, with 65% reporting they don’t trust him. Palantir CEO Alex Karp scored the worst: 81% said they don’t trust him. About 75% of respondents said they don’t trust Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and about the same percentage said they don’t trust Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk all scored about the same, each with about 70% of respondents saying they don’t trust them, and 79% said they don’t trust Palantir Chairman Peter Thiel.”
They know we hate them and what they’re doing to us as a society. And yet they’re doing it anyway. They’re going to keep pushing this technology on us which is stealing our jobs, plunging our society further and further into a tech surveillance dystopia patrolled by militarized drones and police robots, and turning everyone into stupid, artless emotional infants who can’t do anything for ourselves. Whether we like it or not.
These freaks gotta go.
