Look, I know AI is controversial, but just for a moment, let's set aside our preconceived notions, our biases, the environmental impact, the massive cost to train and run models, the labor exploitation, the intellectual property theft, the inaccuracies, the mania it causes in users, the destruction of search, the deskilling of professionals, the devaluation of creative work, job losses, and lack of economic value from enterprise implementations.
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in reply to Max Leibman • • •We were talking about the fossil fuel investors who are funding this unwanted product for their own agenda, and expect everyone else to go along.
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Their agenda? War.
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Elon Musk and billionaire CEOs join Trump in Saudi to court oligarchs for AI investments
Alex Woodward (The Independent)Nicole Parsons
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Military contracts for automated warfare & international state surveillance systems.
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Musk gets to pick who wins wars.
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Accusations are Confessions...
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Rockbridge Network investments
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America and Britain gear up with Project Flytrap to bring anti-drone kit to the battlefield
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State surveillance platforms to support dictatorships.
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Koch Network investments
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Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts
George Hammond (Financial Times)Nicole Parsons
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These investors seek ways to create wasteful energy demand & thwart an urgently necessary fossil fuel phase out.
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It's already stressing a fragile electrical grid & raising utility rates.
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Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
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