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Forums - General - Why We Should Move AI Data Centers Into Space

Zkuq said:
CaptainExplosion said:

I'd like AI companies to find common ground with the rest of us, but they're too greedy and ignorant to listen.

Personally I think the way things are going is a result of how our society is organized in general, capitalism/free market in particular. Companies have little to no incentive to behave differently from how they're behaving now. Some key points of mine about what could or ideally should be changed:

  • Set up proper rules for gathering training data and enforce them - even retroactively. This is my main issue with AI: in many situations, training data has been gathered in dubious ways, possibly violating copyright. Realistically this is probably not ever getting fixed, at least retroactively, unless some major societal changes come to be (e.g. revolutions).
  • Environmental impact should be controlled with environmental legislation. I don't think AI needs any special rules - laws should be good enough to cover data centers without being targeted at AI specifically.
  • Welfare of people should be ensured even when jobs are made redundant by AI.
    • As a somewhat related point, culture (mostly different kinds of art, I'm guessing?) should be supported more strongly if it's weakened too much by increase AI usage.

AI should be helping us at our jobs, not taking over our jobs, and data centers should at least use greener energy sources to stay functional, not gas turbines.