Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear"

fortran77

WSJ gift link: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-is-a-threat-to-everything-the...

garbawarb

What do the American people hold dear?

Ancalagon

wow why are so many comments in this thread against Bernie's stance?

bko

Few notes: The author uses polls that people are negative on AI, but people use it. All the time. And it's organic. Much like people started bringing Excel into the workplace and IT departments had to catch up, people are using personal AI and IT departments are freaking out. It's obvious that people find it useful (it's the fastest growing product in history). Why go off some polls that spread doomer nonsense? Billionaires investing money in creating products that nearly a billion people use rather than improving the lives of working families? Are the billionaires elected leaders? Why is that burden on them. The government gets trillions every year, yet try to get people to believe they are just a few billion shy of providing medicare for all and free childcare. Give me a break AI will create a police state? We've had cameras pretty much everywhere for decades, yet somehow unsolved killings reach a record high in 2023. We don't even bother locking up the people that get arrested. The number of prisoners that have had 15 or more prior arrests is over 26% No one's buying it from these politicians anymore. You're in politics, you have trillions to spend. Just get your shit together, actually help people and stop with these hysterics. https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unso... https://substack.com/home/post/p-149002604

stonyrubbish

AI is probably in need of far more legal safeguards than we have now, but I am sort of tired of the "everyone will lose their jobs" narrative. There are so few jobs LLMs can fully automate. I think what will actually happen is that corporate CEOs will try to cut staff, it won't work, people will be rehired, and AI will largely make people's jobs easier and less labor-intensive.

SilverElfin

It’s a threat to employment, stability, and democracy. AI is going to solidify the concentration of wealth and power like never before. It’s why so many young people fear being in the “permanent underclass”. I haven’t agreed with socialists historically but we need to change our economic and political system to have more socialism than before, and especially to reduce the concentration in the hands of a few individuals and companies. So he’s not wrong.

ozgrakkurt

I don’t have anything against Bernie Sanders but it is not cool to see people instill fear about things they don’t really understand. Similar with Jensen Huang talking about programming. This looks like just trying to pull on the fear of loss or change that people are so susceptible to. The actual threat imo is scammers stealing resources by creating fake fear/hype and they should be jailed. Similar thing happened in crypto and it also hurt the technology that is blockchain. This is a concrete problem that I have personally felt as I buy and rent computers pretty regularly. I don’t see any problem with AI taking my job yet