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Ferryboat

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6. Finished reading Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 11:59 AM

Yesterday

Do we control our devices or do they control us?
Disturbing issues have been glossed over in the development of AI.
Golem class AI? These have developed "certain emergent capabilities " which have come about independently of any human planning or intervention.
"They have capabilities and we're not sure how or when or why they show up".

Just 2 quotes from developers the author interviewed.

Too much money and power at stake to think the development of AI might slow down enough for us to fully understand this new tech. The dangers are being ignored.

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'Wake the F Up. This Is Going to Destroy Us': Senator Sounds Alarm After AI Cyberattack [View all] cbabe Yesterday OP

Senator Chris Murphy Bayard Yesterday #1

Thanks. I missed his name. cbabe Yesterday #2

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do: ... marble falls Yesterday #3

"I am incapable of being wrong." HAL cbabe Yesterday #4

Being right is not the same as never being wrong. They skipped some instruction when programing ol' Hal. marble falls Yesterday #5

Finished reading Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth Ferryboat Yesterday #6

My toaster controls me. I pop up when the toast pops. Humans cbabe Yesterday #7

I've been warning for years about AI and your reference to HAL in 2001 space odyssey and am scared of what it'll do kimbutgar Yesterday #8

Robocop showed us the answer to that dickthegrouch Yesterday #9

Exactly I love these Sci Fi type movies and books and some are scarily coming true. kimbutgar Yesterday #10

Here's an idea. Let's hook everyones' computers together and see what happens. twodogsbarking Yesterday #11

Already in process. The internet of things: cbabe Yesterday #13

Its more scary knowing such an incompetent moron who decides things based on his own personal gain, is in charge LiberalLovinLug Yesterday #12

Well, duh! returnee 2 hrs ago #14