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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound
[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]
Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]
Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]
Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]
Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.
Thing is: All of the examples still exist to various degrees.
And just like them AI is not going to vanish. Even more so than the others because AI is information. It’s like trying to ban E2E: The genie is out of the bottle.
In 2021, there were an estimated 50 million people living as slaves, and in 2013, there were an estimated 168 million children (aged 5-17) involved in child labor. These are the numbers I found off of Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour
It’s a pipe dream to think someone will pull a big switch and turn off AI. Blockchain stopped being relevant but it’s still being used.
AI being irrelevant is good enough for me.
But Blockchain did stop being needlessly added into everything, at least.