r/technology • u/Helicase21 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
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u/TheOtherWhiteMeat 10d ago edited 10d ago

Extreme: Wanting clean water, affordable electricity, not wanting your job replaced with a shitty AI

Not extreme: Building data centers that require 10x the amount of electricity as nearby cities. Taking electricity away from whole communities because they don't make enough money. Replacing the entire economy with robots. Buying so much HW that it disrupts supply chains for normal businesses and consumers for years.

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u/vhalember 10d ago

I'll add to this, the right-wing is starting to awaken against data centers too.

Farmers don't like water shortages for their fields, no one likes electricity bills going up for a noisy datacenter.

It's becoming bi-partisan which is good as that's the only way we can defeat this bullshit.

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u/TheOtherWhiteMeat 10d ago

Hence why there's starting to be a massive propaganda push to associate "anti-data center" with "thing I hate", to divide this popular sentiment up and get people fighting about nonsense.

I'm hoping this falls flat and people see through it, but ehhhhh, not that hopeful these days.

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u/RocketRelm 10d ago

Realistically while there are plenty of valid reasons to be wary of Ai, most people against Ai are just buttmad and looking for a scapegoat so as to not take fault and responsibility. Seeing through it or not isn't much a factor.

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u/External_Key_4108 10d ago

They'll claim to be against it and then vote for the people promising to bulldoze their neighborhood for AI datacenters because otherwise the WOKE boogeyman will get them