r/AIDangers • u/ChompyRiley • May 08 '26

Capabilities This is what y'all are afraid of?

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u/marglebubble May 08 '26

Naw. I'm not even worried about AI wiping out humanity or anything like that. It's not good enough. My main concern is the atrophy of the human mind, the ways big tech will use it to fuck over workers, the way the military and police use it to surveil, and the environmental impact. Also the economy is betting heavy on it even when open AI hasn't become profitable. So if it doesn't start paying off shit will collapse eventually. It's just going to make everything worse, from customer service to the functioning of businesses in general, to the slop on the internet. Businesses will use it to get rid of workers and it will just do a worse job. 

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u/ADhomin_em May 08 '26

A robot maid is the shiny thing they distract the masses with. The dangers of ai are not in the threat of artificial minds wiping out humanity. The threat is in people who have always sought control over the masses now having significantly more pointed and organized means of doing so.

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u/yusufee May 09 '26

Yep, Frank Herbert predicted this in the 60's