Dave Hutchinson: It occurs to me the argument that we have to let AI fuck up the environment because it’s going to learn how to solve climate change is _exactly_ what an AI would be saying if it wanted to destroy us.

It occurs to me the argument that we have to let AI fuck up the environment because it’s going to learn how to solve climate change is _exactly_ what an AI would be saying if it wanted to destroy us.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

Why bother with Terminators when you can just talk a bunch of dumb rich guys into doing the job for you?

Believing that money will insulate you from consequences is their jam.

Caligula’s last line as he’s being murdered in I, Claudius. “You can’t kill me, I’m a god.”

Whenever I see his name, I’m always reminded that Mary Beard translated it as Bootykins and noted this is not the legacy he would have preferred.

Yes, ‘Little Boots’, which makes him sound like a rapper.

I imagine Chat GPT or whatever is already building up a library of sound clips from old Schwarzenegger movies so that when it does send out the Terminators to hunt down those of us who are left, they sound right.

Maybe the damn thing has a sense of humour after all…

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