Given how much of a disappointment AI has been so far, I'm a little disappointed an organisation like the UN has bought into the hype.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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UN is going to "manage the transition" - like it's some fucking destiny to implement AI and destroy the earth with yet another environmental catastrophe... uh...shit
something...something...guillotines...luddites...working class solidarity. The transformation will happen in the destruction of corporate AI and the systems that allow the rich to control the working class. Fuck the UN "managing" the implementation of corporate AI.
Working class solidarity should be the focus. We should preferably do this before the bots get autonomously controlled opposable thumbs.
Whether you are a “doomer” or a “boomer”
...what? Have the kids started using "boomer" to mean "optimist" at some point?
In this case "Doomer" is probably an alternate word for Gen Z. They are sometimes called the doomer generation.
The main threat is straight out of The Matrix: energy consumption.
In a time where more and more parts of the world are having water and energy supply issues, we have AI server farms springing up that consume as much power as a small city… leaving humans with higher costs and less power available.
As for the rest, AI sucks at trades currently, and will only be replacing information worker functions in the near term. Of course, since suppliers compete for work, AI will be mostly an add-on, where the losers in the short term will be those who don’t add it on.
In the long term, those who are very focused in how it is leveraged will win, because you still need to train new humans, and that’s difficult to do if all the junior work is being handled by AI.
So in 50 years or so (if not sooner), we’ll see the full effects of this push to integrate AI at all costs, both on expertise and on the environment.
Fuck 9-5! I am a manager and can't stand working 9-5 for rest of my life. AI can have it.
'Can underperforming AI workers ever compete with human workers?' Should be the title..
We have two choices, worldwide Utopia or massive worldwide suffering. Which one do you think will happen?