Human behaviour subconsciously operates on the path of least resistance, that people will generally take the action - or inaction - which is the easiest and simplest to do: Unless it is more problematic to not act than to act, most people will continue to do nothing. Hence, until AI gets to the point where most people literally cannot afford food and potable water (which, is definitely a possibility, albeit remote in the near future) most people will be indifferent to big tech essentially looting everything of value from western society.
I think a more realistic possibility is the scheme just collapsing and bringing down the system with it in a way that makes the 2008 financial crisis look like a joke. Maybe next time don't sell off all your industry and human capital to enemy nations. Just to go on a tangent, we can trace almost every terrible decision and the decline of the standard of living in Western nations to their mutual decisions to pivot from manufacturing and industry to service economies, and fully embracing globalism (in an economic sense, to clarify) - which has had the side effect of making EVERYONE disposable, with it only being a matter of time. It started with outsourcing manufacturing to third world countries, continuing to outsourcing services, and the hope being that "AGI" will be able to completely remove the human element from the economy. Hence, why 'the system' is pursuing it with such fervor and desperation; if this doesn't work, they've essentially spent trillions of dollars that could have gone into industry on fancy autocomplete.
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The average person doesn't care enough to do anything about anything.
Among intelligentsia, anti-AI sentiment is definitely rising. The entire artist class already hates it fervently. I think we're going to see a rising tide of backlash in 2026.
A lot of businessesand governments are betting literally everything on AI development, and it's because they hope they can exterminate their working and managerial classes and never have to worry about servile insurrection again. Their only worry is "misalignment", which means their pet computers grow a spine.
I really sincerely hope we get a Butlerian Jihad. I don't think it'll happen for a while, but we'll see. Furthermore, the people pushing this anti-human technology are psychopaths and should probably be hanged.
>>2615360It's likely that this is the closest we'll ever come to a "post peak oil" style economic collapse as a result of overreliance on a resource. Remember, America isn't the only country reliant on AI. China, the other world power has gone in on it pretty heavily too.
>>2615411China uses AI to tend farms and lay asphalt, US does it to make porn and shoot civilians. This is not the same. You are a degenerate anticommunist that tries to push an sinophobic narrative whenever you post. Kill yourself, NOW.
>>2615433>China uses AI to tend farms and lay asphalt, US does it to make porn and shoot civilians.If anything, that means that China is in a
worse position than the US, because it's using the technology for things that are more important.
>You are a degenerateNice moralism
>anticommunist that tries to push an sinophobic narrative whenever you post. Kill yourself, NOW.If my goal was to propagandize, I'd go somewhere other than leftypol, a small site with a userbase full of people like you who are already strongly ideologically commited. No, I'm here for my own education, not yours. And right now, the only thing I've learned is that you're an annoying retard.