How do we stop this? All I can think of is destroying AI data centers, but somehow destroying the technology that's ruining the economy makes ME the extremist.

I need AI to die because with all the jobs taken by AI I won't have nearly the income needed to have my own home. I'm in the my 30s, still living with my parents, and when they're gone I may have nowhere to go, all because of AI and the short sighted CEOs who glorified it, even trying to justify it's existence by saying "We're streamlining treatment of severe ailments!".

I don't think it is possible to totally stop technologies from proliferating once they've started. I think the best thing we can do is to create a society where that proliferation does the least harm. We already have social technologies to solve this problem. 

Examples: 

1. Housing first policy for everyone, regardless of their labor status. (see: Finland, formerly Utah - oddly) 

2. Community programs that support creative endeavors independent of commodification, because artists are most free to produce when it isn't for a commodity product, but rather a unique output and expression. (see: many European countries)

3. Strong environment regulations on data centers, maybe coupled with renewable clean energy initiatives. 

4. Changes to unemployment insurance taxes that heavily penalize corporations that automate so that the bulk of the savings go to the public which needs to deal with the negative effects of automation. Use this to fund a citizens dividend. The more automation the bigger that citizen dividend becomes, automatically. 

5. Shifting from housing as a store and accumulator of wealth. Housing should primarily be a shared need, not a commodity that one can arbitrage on. In many countries housing isn't the mechanism which people store their wealth. Instead wealth is stored in public pensions and sovereign funds (see: Norway.) 

We already see fragments of what needs to be done in various societies. It just needs to be comprehensively packaged, and universalized. 

That won't happen because the world is run by decrepit white prunes who blow up Middle Eastern children for the sake of oil and distracting from the Epstein files. We live in a world where the greedy beat the needy.

It is an order of magnitude more likely to happen than mass-bombing all data-centers. Each of the goals are also very obtainable cumulatively. Like I said, multiple countries already have many of these in Europe. 

I get it, but lately these days it feels like non-violent resistance does jack shit.

Welp, a PS5 now costs $650 and a PS5 Pro $900 cos of stupid shit like Sora.

Gotta pump that bubble no matter the cost.

I don't think these changes will come from only non-violence. Labor struggles have always had some, even a lot of, violence. I think there will be violence. The ruling class most often looks to make concessions when the violence gets to a critical mass though, and then those concessions temper things. What probably will happen is that populations will shift left-wing economically once unemployment rates hit double digits, which is going to happen in the next recession/depression. 

Embodied intelligence (robots) are still far behind other fields of AI and it seems like that will be one of the last things AI will actually do, so the rich can't just use the robots to kill everyone. 

The big thing is that people who aren't unemployed will need to have solidarity with those who are, understanding that they are next. That will make the biggest difference. 

The rich are already using AI to kill people. Iranian civilians were recently blown up because an AI marked them as a military target. Already waiting for the same thing to happen to American citizens.

And/or pick up a fucking pencil, something these AI slobs have never even tried in their lives.

You just glossed over that artists, animators and writers are getting fucked over. Producing and consuming digital media is how many people today earn a living, and generative AI is depriving them of that living, especially artists who already have been struggling to make ends meet.

You two are both right, many good and bad things will come from this. Kids will be growing up and much worse off from all the chat got that is used on their schoolwork, won’t learn how to learn.