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Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, “AI” is literally contributing to the burning of the planet.

  cleanairfund.org/…/wildfires-climate-change-and-a…

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  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So is the computer you’re using

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• OmgItBurns@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nothing wrong with examining potential issues for emerging technology before they become actual issues.

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  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For sure, and I agree. But that isn’t what happens around here. Instead we turn to panic rather than skepticism. We are cynical more than anything.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you disagree that AI presents an existential threat to our current way of life, and that a new way of life may be worse, and that we should therefore plan ahead before plunging in?

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      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m going to ask you something and please think about it. I have a belief that media highlighted these dangers in the same way the right wing media highlighted the dangers of immigration. If I look at articles, the framework is the same. The details are different, but it’s the same scaffolding. That puts my hair up.

        So to answer your question, yes I think AI poses a danger. That doesn’t mean I don’t embrace it or look forward to it positively. I believe we need to push the other way. Embrace and seize it. Force awareness of it and force legislation or cultural views that puts it in a better place for these tools to remain open Source. We have to be the primary consumers to influence it.

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• threeganzi@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s your point here?

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re trying to compare “AI” to fire. It’s inane.

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