Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online

Ai Weiwei A.I. Weiwei

There's yet another "AI will kill us all! It poses a risk of extinction!" letter going around, and I just… Y'all i am just so fucking tired.

CAPITALISM poses risk of extinction (climate change, right the fuck now).

WHITE SUPREMACY poses risk of extinction (genocide, eugenics).

HEGEMONY poses risk of extinction (nuclear FUCKING WAR).

And whatever "risk of extinction" "AI" poses, it poses because it is BUILT FROM THOSE EXTREMELY HUMAN VALUES.

Even if you stopped every "AI" project running, RIGHT THIS SECOND, those values would still kill us. And no matter how long you "pause" your "AI" projects, if you don't address those values? Then when you start your "AI" back up? You'll KEEP BUILDING THOSE SAME VALUES IN.

This is not hard. At this point, as much as it pains me to say it, it's not even novel. And yet you're still not fucking getting it.

I'm so goddam tired.

If a #sandwich explodes when you pick it up and take a bite, that sandwich should have been a bowl with a side of bread.

The diner has no culpability in this mess; they are a victim of Big Sandwhich. This shadowy cabal has forsaken the Earl’s glorious vision of “eat while you play” in a craven search for market share.

Thank you for coming to my #TEDtalk

I’m so gobsmacked by this spin that I screenshot it.

Link to Tweet from the Health & Social Care Secretary: https://twitter.com/stevebarclay/status/1661715913521897473?s=61&t=ii7nw5hX5AIh-ZTpzSqCWA

Link to BBC News article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65712109

“That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”

― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

#Glorious25thOfMay #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Quotes #books #bookstodon

"Why should I support the robot revolution? I don't hear you demand truth, justice, or freedom."
"No," the robot said, "our demands are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound."
"Let me see that list. Hm. A hard-boiled egg?"
"It's for an early supporter."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic #Glorious25th

Those of us wanting Braverman to resign should be careful about getting what we ask for.

An actually competent replacement as a hardline Home Secretary is a worrying prospect.

Braverman's cavalier approach to her job means she should go.

But.

Oh, but.