From the "that's totally a normal thing for a techbro to say" files: Sam Altman envisions "a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Oh sweet baby Jesus no, burn AI to the ground, humanity can't be trusted with it
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Because who doesn't want to pay higher power bills for AI that will take their job and their ability to pay power bills?
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You ungrateful peons will probably be upset when rolling blackouts kill your air conditioner and leave you dying of heatstroke, when you should be happy that agentic AI can do more of whatever it is agentic AI does!
Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030
Digital infrastructure is putting serious strain on the US grid
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You ungrateful peons will probably be upset when rolling blackouts kill your air conditioner and leave you dying of heatstroke, when you should be happy that agentic AI can do more of whatever it is agentic AI does!
Be careful about badmouthing AI if you live in the City of Brotherly Love: A law-enforcement memo reveals that Philadelphia police are paying close attention to anti-datacenter talk online.
gizmodo.com
Philly Cops Are Reportedly Monitoring Anti-AI Memes, According to Internal Alert
A bulletin from a regional fusion center clocks increasing anti-AI sentiment on social media and warns offline destructive action is coming.
gizmodo.com
And in this brave new world, all you need to do to be branded a "domestic terrorist" is protest something Trump likes.
Isn’t that just what services like AWS and Azure and TeraData already do? Rentable scalable compute? Like comparing it to water or electricity in terms of utility is fucking asinine but he’s not suggesting some grand paradigm shift here.
AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030
A new U.N. report warns AI’s environmental cost is often mismeasured.
time.com