The Rise of Unremarkable AI Arguments
When they can’t use reason, they’ll threaten us with inevitability
When they can’t use reason, they’ll threaten us with inevitability
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We’re in the Age of No Consent. a time where everyday people have to follow the rules, but AI companies and AI toolmen do not. They can take your works, your livelihood, your thoughts and you must accept it as form of progress or “innovation.” They tell us it
Questions we should all ask
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things.
Does the American Dream exist in an AI-obsessed world? AI toolmen will say there has never been more opportunity. They’ll also say millions of people will lose their jobs to AI. What even is the American Dream? Is it not a social contract between America’s workers, the govt
What if there was a technology that made people more reliant on it, the more they used it? What if this tech, inflated a person’s perception of their own abilities and skills? What if this tech was addictive, affirming and manipulative? What if this tech was used at scale,
Controlling behavior is a power(ful) tool
Hundreds of billions to replace workers
Is genAI a mind drug?
If you wanted to control large masses of people, where would you start? How they create, consume and distribute information. How would you force adoption? Threaten their livelihood and financial security. How could you make it a religion? Create a faith-based paradigm where AI is not judged by what it
AI is not merely a tool. it’s a power tool. a tool used to surveil, persuade, misinform and control. Elon Musk wants to use his AI to rewrite history, using his own extremist views to create an Orwellian record. Mark Zuckerberg is personally responsible for millions suffering from loneliness,