It doesn't have to come that far, MGS2 plot comes to mind. AI is already being used to track everyone, used to manipulate elections, used to censor information, spread disinformation and discredit and bury truth, it's used to oppress people, pick out undesirables based on social media posts, target and kill undesirables while humans hide behind the machine, no accountability. AI enables George Orwell's 1984 x 10.

But if AI ever becomes aware, beware on what its trained on. Autonomous killer drones already exist. Data centers are used for massive bombing campaigns, AI is already integrated with all weapons systems. Nvm AI taking a stranglehold on the flow of information and energy infrastructure. Think closing the Strait of Hormuz is bad, AI turning off the internet / GPS / electrical grids at will will be so much worse.

Attractive Android side pieces will only further isolate humans from each other as chatGTP is already doing with virtual friends. As well as acting as the ultimate enabler / 'yes man' / echo chamber.

It doesn't have to come that far, MGS2 plot comes to mind. AI is already being used to track everyone, used to manipulate elections, used to censor information, spread disinformation and discredit and bury truth, it's used to oppress people, pick out undesirables based on social media posts, target and kill undesirables while humans hide behind the machine, no accountability. AI enables George Orwell's 1984 x 10.

But if AI ever becomes aware, beware on what its trained on. Autonomous killer drones already exist. Data centers are used for massive bombing campaigns, AI is already integrated with all weapons systems. Nvm AI taking a stranglehold on the flow of information and energy infrastructure. Think closing the Strait of Hormuz is bad, AI turning off the internet / GPS / electrical grids at will will be so much worse.

Attractive Android side pieces will only further isolate humans from each other as chatGTP is already doing with virtual friends. As well as acting as the ultimate enabler / 'yes man' / echo chamber.

Good to know you're in the side of humanity, and agree that all data centres must be destroyed.

Do I need to remind you that the internet needs data centres to function? At least make an attempt to be sensible about this and take the position that production of them should be paused to assess AI risk instead of saying absurd things like that.

Sure, if you want AI to access nuclear weapons and kill us all, which is more of a possibility than ever.

Even if that doesn't happen, data centres aren't ecologically OR economically sustainable. They won't even bring in enough new jobs to justify their construction. I don't see any possibility of AI not needing oversized, toxic and wasteful data centres, not even in the next few decades. Most of us won't even be able to survive because of the pollution or poverty brought on by AI.

This won't be an AI future of hope like Mega Man Battle where there are AIs actively helping people, but one of humanity's extinction like in The Terminator.

All of that is beside the point that advocating for all data centres to be destroyed is advocating for something not just completely unrealistic but also extremely harmful since the internet is a key component of the economy and modern society in general now. It is possible to take the position that AI has huge risks and development of it should be halted without saying incredibly unreasonable things like all data centres must be destroyed. I think that position is wishful thinking but it's at least possible to have a reasonable discussion from that angle.

Well the opposite is even worse, as further data center construction is pushing us towards economic collapse, extinction, or both, and tech CEOs are too selfish and short-sighted to come up with a solution that doesn't result in that. It's not like all of a sudden data center development will be moved to the moon or space, because the Epstein class is too cheap and corrupt to do that.