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I want both nuclear power and AI to be commonplace.
Where the latter is concerned, it should be decentralized by law: Individual households can own a home server, and in turn, rent or loan their compute to organizations. The reason for this, is to limit the power of corporations and force them to abide by the will of ordinary people, rather than being able to hoard technological power to fuck over the government and citizens. The same applies to robots capable of replacing human labor.
We should not reject AI nor automation, and instead seek to ensure that they can't be used against the interests of the public good. Mindless rejection, just ensures that bad actors will eventually have sole mastery over these resources.
It's not mindless rejection. It´s just the argument taken one step further - the system we live in will put the fruits of AI into corporate and therefore capital's (the bad actors) hands, along with the power and control that come with it. We won't reap much of the benefits and we'll suffer the costs. Without a fundamental change to the system we take that as the almost certain outcome. Hence the rejection. I think the rejection would change with a material change in the system.
Can you tell us more about these Bad Actors? Are they in the room with us, right now?
All sorts: the Epstein Class, corporations like Blackrock or Blackwater, the Heritage Foundation, cults, corrupt government officials, grifters, and so forth. They might not be physically in our rooms, but their influence colors our everyday life, in ways great and small, often beyond our perception.
Fact of the matter is that there are many forms of power and methods of applying it - AI is no different. Like any tool, it doesn't care about how it is used or abused. Humans have to decide whether they wield the power of the tool, and to what end.
A shovel can dig gardens and mass graves alike. A good person tries to prevent whatever causes the latter outcome, and encourage the former.