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Breaking news: mere hours ago (stretching the definition of breaking, I know) the new UK Prime Penister — ahem! Minister — announced new classes for children age 14 including classes on AI.

Now, to me this could go either way. Either, it opens these children’s eyes to the problems with AI and actually encourages the next generation to solve the issues of AI, or this lazy generation might end up being indoctrinated into the greed and corruption surrounding AI. Knowing the fallibility of human beings, in my humble opinion it is most certainly the latter, but who knows? What are your thoughts on this announcement?

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[–] 1egg4u@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We should make it mandatory that in order to legislate something like this you have to prove you actually understand how it works

I would love to hear this prime minister describe to me what "AI" can and can't do in his own words.

[–] TheAntiAiLeader@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And that is exactly what I call hitting the nail on the head. I completely agree with you. Imagine any politician try to explain AI

“So Prime Minister, Can you explain how AI works?”

“Well, I, er… I’m not going to comment on policies I’m pushing but… this afternoon we nationalised pretzels…” 🙄

[–] 1egg4u@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

My kingdom for a journalist with some chutzpah to actually ask these questions too

Half these idiots dont even realize the "AI" theyre plugging is basically predictive text/syncophancy machines, the REAL AI that matters that helps scientists with shit like datasets isnt coming from Meta.