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SvennoJ on 12 October 2026
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Vinther1991 said:

I’m a doomer! While I do recognise the potential of AI to help mankind, and solve some of society’s major challenges, the AI utopia would mean we didn’t have to work so much, but could spend the time on the family and things we enjoy. However, that is unfortunately not the timeline we are on.
AI development is being driven by the same psychopaths that gave us social media, private data harvesting, mass surveillance, doom scrolling, personalized ads, software as a service etc. The people who promised prosperity, but instead ruined the media landscape, and maximised their profits by pushing self-harm on little girls. The people who have built their own private doomsday bunkers, while they are eroding the living conditions for the rest of us, profiting on stealing everything mankind has ever created. Hacking their way in everywhere, but escaping responsibility, because it was “the AI” that did it.
Yeah, you are basicly delusional if you believe that these people will take society in a better direction. You can vote for better regulations, sure, but we all know who’s really in charge now.
We can hope that their own recklessness and hubris will be their downfall.
I firmly believe that next year we will see a major event that will make the huggingface incident look like a tiny warning. Maybe AI will hack itself into a major bank and empty people’s account, break down the internet by mass corrupting it with bots and garbage or something like that.

Don't even need AI to hack you personal information, Elon Musk already has free access

He considers Musk the most dangerous man (child) on Earth, ahead of Putin and Netanyahu. And you're spot on about accountability, that's why he has a firm grip in politics. Trump wants/needs money, Musk needs government to give him free reign. It's a toxic symbiotic relationship. Unfortunately their recklessness and hubris will be our downfall.

Sure all new technologies have/had downsides, refrigerators destroyed the ozone layer for example, industrial farming poisoned the water with pesticides and synthethic fertilizers, caused biodiversity collapse, erosion, desertification, all contributing to climate change.

AI is new technology on steroids, potential to do harm much faster on a much bigger scale as the AI boom is already destabilizing the world economy, power grids, water use next to undermining critical thinking and learning. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/09/ai-brain-development-youth

AI is great when put to specific use, automating/optimizing repetitive tasks, gathering/organizing research material, suggesting connections/explanations, yet general chat bots that do all the work for you should be banned in schools. It's a lot more than using a calculator for school, it's a calculator that let's you bypass understanding the question or learning anything from it.