Because drones are expensive, and it would be a waste of money to use them on poor people.
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WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
What is to stop the ultra wealthy from simply each making a million of these AI commanded drones, and just…killing all the poor? ALL of them? ALL OF US?!
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
rozodru@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
because the ultra wealthy can’t cook, can’t produce the stuff needed to cook, can’t build super cars or private jets or build mansions, they can’t make the latest high tech gadgets, they can’t produce the most stylish of clothes or expensive watches. That’s why they keep us around. They need us plebs to make them stuff and produce their wealth to purchase the shit we make.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This why they are so obsessed with AI. When AI can do whatever they want, the rest of us will be exterminated like pests.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
I think wage slaves will be cheaper than robots for a while longer
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Who would’ve guessed skynet was purposefully created by the wealthy back when T2 came out amongst us general public?
I was like, “oh that’s so eerie” as a youngster. The truth behind this path has, unfortunately, been both more embarrassing and savage.
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
At least there’s no way they won’t turn AI against each other and extinction themselves in the process.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Maybe just save yourself the trouble and get a heads up you know
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
The rich are only rich because the money they possess can be exchanged directly or indirectly for people’s labour. Without it, the money is valueless and the rich cease to be. It’s also one reason why labour strikes are so effective and the rich have had to create militias to prevent them.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
You miss the point. If they get AI to the point where it can replicate our work “well enough”, it won’t need to even be intelligent or invent new things.
They won’t need to care about money, if they get to the point where AI produces and maintains everything for them.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
I understand completely what you’re saying and I have considered it. I just don’t believe we’ll ever get to the point where a fully automated system produces all necessary goods for high standard of living without human labour required. Worse, even if we get to the point where significantly less labour is required, history informs us that the unemployed would very likely revolt and take power through violence. Especially because we won’t be able to go from the status quo to a state where we neutralize revolting people automatically in a short enough time frame for people to be caught by surprise and unable to revolt. Not to mention that a part of such a revolt would likely include the stoppage of work by people who work on, maintain and operate the automation. I think the most likely scenario as we go down this path would be the formation of militant labour unions that take power back from the rich and steer automation into producing for the majority. Whether we go away from capitalism through this change or reshape it, I don’t have a guess.
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
The ratio of poor to ultra wealthy is far greater than a million to one. Other than that, the only practical reason they have for not doing it is that they still need human labor for most of what they do. That isn’t going to change anytime soon, despite AI. However, they don’t need their labor force to be free or happy, which is why the US is on the cusp of a fascist takeover.
The rule of law has largely stopped mattering to the ultra wealthy. It may occasionally inconvenience them, but they know it will never affect them in any personal way.
Not all of the ultra wealthy are socipaths. Unfortunately, terminal-stage capitalism does a surprisingly good job of selecting for sociopathy at the very top of the hierarchy. Becoming that rich requires both a strong belief that you deserve it and a disregard for how acquiring it harms others.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
One weird thing I noticed is the children inheriting the welth also tend to be psycho. Perhaps having everything you need destroys empathy?
vga@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Does that imply that we should avoid getting people everything they need?
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah that’s why collectivists worldwide always strive for taking the standard of living to the lowest possible level, that’s way no one can have have what they need, except obviously the ones in power, ideologically speaking
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
I would never allow it. Experimenting with gadget combos is how I live
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Are you just like that by default or are you just missing your daily pills?
Maybe stop projecting your inner traumas towards the world, and get help. Can’t be possible to live a healthy life with that mindset
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Why would they do that? Then there’d be noone to work the mines…
Doomsider@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Pretty much this and the answer is nothing. This is the world we have created where people are murdered just because. We are the ultimate terrorist.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
the rate at which i’ve been referencing slaughterbots has steadily been increasing…
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Then who would they lord over and whose hard work would they make their money off of, on the other hand using these threats to bring back slavery feels like the scarier future to me
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
We in the USA are telling farmers that they won’t deport their labor if they are accountable to them. They can very easily have those who defect or resist in any way deported to concentration camps. They can also be imprisoned for trying to slip over the border the other way.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
They can have a large zoo
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Why would anyone do this? Why wouldn’t the normal legal process supported by all the rest of the rich bozos stop the one Uber rich psycho.
Why would anyone not notice a million terminators being made before they were unleashed?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I believe they were sarcastic, their name is listed as worldsdumbestman
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yeah, if it wasn’t only because people in here love that type of “sarcastic” comments
I mean 26 upvotes for a clearly deranged idea?
Jeezus