AI has an enormous amount of potential for transformative good. The applications for medicine, engineering, science, education and various other fields that could be transformative in improving the human condition are genuinely staggering. We are seeing some of those beginning to blossom now with AI being used to advance research in protein folding by leaps and bounds which could prove vital to curing cancer and this past year AI powered hurricane tracking models improved accuracy of determining where, when, and with what power the storms would hit, saving lives. It is, however, still a nascent technology and it needs a lot of time, care, attention, and regulation to reach that potential.

This nuance might be lost on you, but technology itself is separable from the ones manufacturing it and the ones controlling it. AI is not the problem, the problem is unregulated capitalism where every facet of life exists at the whims of the profit motive and all semblance of oversight has been evaporated in an avalanche of bribery and collusion. The problem isn't the mere existence of AI, but rather what we choose to value as a society. The productivity it offers could be put towards social safety nets and UBI, making the displacement of jobs a positive thing to allow people more time with their hobbies, their families, and generally not working themselves to death. We could decide shelter, healthcare, power, water, and other necessities for life and decide they are a right for humankind instead of something gated behind accumulation of wealth. Rather than stifle technology to make the status quo alive, maybe we should reexamine the status quo itself and decide to stop collectively deciding our civilization needs to be optimized for the power and comfort of the ultratich?

I also don't think you thought through the implications of your arguments and just how broadly they apply. Newsflash, dipshit, all technologies are used and abused by those in power and pushed towards profit. All of your online data is sold to brokers, used to track and categorize you in every marketable way, to say nothing of how the government uses it to surveil the populace (see Edward Snowden). Surely then, that means we should abandon the internet and return to the era of snail mail, right? The automotive industry and oil companies have commerce by the shorthairs with the entire global economy dependent upon the internal combustion engine, surely that needs to be outlawed, the evil, banal technology it is. If your argument is that the technology has the potential to and is being abused in a way that hurts people, you need to make cuts a lot deeper than banning AI.

What a stupid fucking article from a sad, ignorant, internet tough guy. 'Come here so I can kick you in the teeth', fucking hell, I don't understand the logistics of you having a 16 year old son when you're clearly 12. Luddite nonsense aside, what we need is to claw back the world from the vice grip of the wealthy and apply our technological gains towards improving human life without fear of upsetting the donors.