Personally I wouldn’t trust a lawn chair engineered by AI…let alone anything consequential.

Thank you. It can’t be both the reason for job cuts yet not show massive productivity gains. The reason is corporate greed in a squeezed economy.

Publican advocating for war crimes…crazy!

Try not being evil then if you’re mad about being caught.

Tell me your country is falling into private sector authoritarianism without telling me your country is falling into private sector authoritarianism.

What if we as a society decided to just not?

5% of those layoffs will actually be AI related. The other 95% will be profits related.

Anecdotally, I’d say money and the world would be the two big things.

People don’t have enough money to raise kids. Americans can’t afford to give birth with hospital bills. Childcare is expensive, but the alternative is no income. People can’t accumulate generational wealth, so there’s nothing to pass on, therefore no need for anyone to pass it to.

Environmental anxiety is real. Why bring kids into a world that’s about to burn?

Maybe one last factor is rebellion. A small sample I feel like chooses not to have kids so as not to perpetuate the system. The billionaires can’t exploit my kids if I don’t have any.

It’ll be total control almost as fast as his total control over Iran.

What’s the clear and present danger for this one again?

But AI, at this point and for the foreseeable future, is not a thinking machine. It’s a probability machine. It can do some neat tricks and some helpful things, but it is not thinking.

I would also posit that AI is in many ways less useful than tech that came before it. Computers largely augment what people had been doing on paper for centuries before, just faster, more consistently, easier. AI promises to outsource thinking, which isn’t augmenting something people already do (or at least should do). But at this point, it fails to do even that.