Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists, has published “the most important thing I’ve published in quite some time” at his Substack: An Inconvenient Truth About AI. “Twenty years ago,” he begins, “climate denial was a problem of the right. Today, AI denial is a problem of the left. And the consequences could be even more disastrous.” Someone posted it to Mefi and fired the starting gun for everyone Bregman would consider an “AI denier” (oh hai) to start furiously typing their rebuttals. I was no different, needing two attempts to get my first thoughts in some sort of order. I ended up posting four thousand words there—so inevitably, most of them are ending up here. My first thought was that his climate denial analogy sucks. Climate deniers are denying the laws of nature, not the hype of tech bros. The Earth doesn’t care what humans think, it’s just responding to what we’re actually doing, which is pumping CO2 into its atmosphere. Climate deniers can deny all they like:…
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