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Wendy horgan's avatar

I don't take seriously an article on AI that completely ignores the environmental damage from these massive data centers and the impact on jobs.

So if I get a chance, I will pressure my elected representatives to regulate AI to death.

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Jason's avatar

The harm from AI (environmental, financial, mental, emotional) far outweighs the benefits.

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Holly Starbright's avatar

As a woman in the performing arts I can only say that AI is a tool of the devil, designed to give corporations the ability to create without human participation - and without compensating anyone; and the lack of any guardrails or ethics among those that b uild AI systems is criminal. Add to that, as Wendy Horgan says below, the enormous cost to the environment, the humongous resources these data centers soak up with not one benefit going to the communities that 'host' them. If ever there was a perfect example of what's in Pandora's jar, AI is it. There can be no conceivable benefit of AI that's worth the cost to humanity.

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Irena's avatar

The enormous electric power needed to operate data centers is definitely a very important topic to discuss. Who is going to build more power resources? Who is going to pay for them? And with an Administration which is castrating alternative energy sources, this dilemma needs addressing.

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Marc Panaye's avatar

A trustworthy AI?

Sorry but that ship has sailed as soon as altman, musk, bezos, zuckerberg and thiel decided that they own AI.

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Joseph McPhillips's avatar

Good governance requires a Blue tsunami.

"$2/gal gasoline, no inflation" Fraudster Trump I AM THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT signs EO allowing drug companies to voluntarily lower prices then claims drug prices are falling by an impossible 500%-700% which would mean drug cos are paying us to take their drugs. Let us know where we get paid.

Trump fraudsters are plundering the Treasury & exploding the national debt for the benefit of the Great Gatsby/Epstein class...Trump's idea of affordability. Trump's tone deaf depravity: So I don’t wanna hear about the affordability. …so the affordability is much better with the Republicans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-HyLNIRmdY

Resist the fraudster authoritarians. Vote Blue!

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JDV's avatar

The reason AI is in a bubble now is the same reason cryptocurrency is. What actual use do the two technologies fulfill other than enriching criminals and billionaires? The hype artists that promote these technologies fail to produce anything concrete that's genuinely useful compared to pre-ChatGPT or pre-Bitcoin.

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