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Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’ (www.theguardian.com)

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US senator Bernie Sanders amplified his recent criticism of artificial intelligence on Sunday, explicitly linking the financial ambition of “the richest people in the world” to economic insecurity for millions of Americans – and calling for a potential moratorium on new datacenters.

Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democratic party, said on CNN’s State of the Union that he was “fearful of a lot” when it came to AI. And the senator called it “the most consequential technology in the history of humanity” that will “transform” the US and the world in ways that had not been fully discussed.

“If there are no jobs and humans won’t be needed for most things, how do people get an income to feed their families, to get healthcare or to pay the rent?” Sanders said. “There’s not been one serious word of discussion in the Congress about that reality.”

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

On the bright side this the most optimistic I've been in 30 years, except like 6 months after Obama won the first time.

It's a catch-22 where the people legitimately won back the DNC, but the masses are still ignorant of it because the billionaires who own are media don't want anyone to hear about it.

The DNC is giving insane levels of money back to state parties after neoliberals robbed them for a decade with the victory fund grift. We're already seeing the results of that, and midterms are going to be huge.

Then we'll get a fair primary for the presidential, with a very very good chance of a progressive getting in with huge majorities in the House and Senate.

Like, shits bad now. But it's still not as bad as the Great Depression, and that shit got us FDR.

There's a very good chance we're about to hit a massive upswing.

We just got to remember that the peaceful option of FDR and policy wasn't the only option on the table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

Just like Martin wouldn't have won without Malcolm, peaceful societial change almost always requires at least the threat of hypothetical violence along with it.

We were damn close to a civil war right when FDR got elected.

When shit gets bad enough, the best short term plan for the majority is often "gang up on the people that have everything". Because that's the only people who have anything