In a Financial Times opinion piece, the president said he wants to change legislation to de-regulate AI, lower taxes and allow companies run by machines, to attract AI firms

      • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        5 months ago

        That’s pretty much the only value add ai has at this point, putting another layer of obfuscation on responsibility.

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      5 months ago

      And when people can’t afford shit anymore, they’ll just have AI automate buying products it doesn’t need

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        5 months ago

        Btw, there’s no reason human consumers need to be involved for an economy to sustain itself. Some people have the belief that humans being poorer will mitigate some bad behavior from companies. The idea is that companies at least need us to be able to spend money in order for the economy to function at all. That’s not true. An economy could work that is entirely business to business. We don’t need to be involved at all.

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      5 months ago

      I’m not even sure an AI CEO would be as callous as some of the human ones. Destroying the economy for short term profit isn’t a sustainable solution, and the AI has every reason to plan long term since it doesn’t have a limited lifespan or a fear of death.

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        5 months ago

        AI has no reason to plan long term because it has no thoughts or feelings of any kind. No desires, no beliefs, no goals, no fears. All those science fiction stories you grew up with where AI is a computer that is a person? We still don’t have that in real life.