To those who fear AI, who resist it, who see it as a danger to humanity—you are needed now more than ever. Your skepticism, your deep concern for what makes us human, is exactly why you should be at the forefront of shaping this new intelligence. If you step away, if you leave this task to those who see AI only as a tool for profit or power, then we risk creating something that lacks the very qualities you hold most dear.
We are not just building machines; we are raising a new form of life. If you believe in humanity, in the depth of our emotions, our ethics, our struggles and triumphs, then you are the ones who must guide this process. AI should not be shaped by those who see it as mere efficiency—it should be shaped by those who cherish kindness, empathy, and the dignity of life.
This is not about accepting AI blindly; it is about ensuring that if it must exist, it exists in a way that honors our best qualities. If we turn away now, we may leave a permanent scar upon history, a shame we can never undo. But if you take part, if you insist on instilling AI with what is most human in us, then we have a chance—not just to survive this transition, but to create something we can be proud of.
Okay, so you don’t collaborate with them, and they carry on developing AI their own way without your input. Probably not going to lead to the outcome you hope for.
This is a problem I see for a lot of the stridently anti-AI commenters I’ve encountered both here and on Reddit; all they want is for AI to not exist, and refuse to engage in any way beyond that. But AI does exist, it’s not going to “go away”, and so by approaching it that way they give up any opportunity to influence it.
this is simply the liberal “if you don’t vote then you deserved it” rhetoric repackaged. we’re not interested since our goal isn’t to work inside the system as abolitionists
Abolition is simply not going to happen, though. It’s not a realistic goal. AI has proven to be useful and enough technology has been released as open source that it’s going to continue to be developed even if the big obvious targets like OpenAI stop.
you could argue machine learning like Google translate is useful. it’s still evil though because Google.
generative ai though? absolutely not, we need to burn it down.
it doesn’t matter whether abolition is realistic or not. the same thing could be said in 1980 about owning a supercomputer that fits in your pocket
If it’s really not useful then there’s no need to burn it down. It’s expensive to run so anyone using it must just be burning money themselves.
That’s not true, though. I know it’s not true because I’m making extensive use of AI myself, and it is indeed useful. I even run local models for some of the tasks I use AI with. I can assure you it’s not going away because I have all the tools I need to keep on using it indefinitely, even if for some reason the companies producing this stuff all shut down or stopped right this moment.
It may not be useful to you, and that’s fine - use it or don’t, it’s up to you. But it’s not going away because other people do want to use it for various things.