this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
85 points (96.7% liked)

Futurology

2883 readers
102 users here now

Futurology: A space for the discussion of the future of us - the human organism, and the relationship we have with the spaces we may inhabit.

I have only two rules for this community:

** Respect the Community.**

** Respect one another.**

Freedom of speech comes with freedom to experience consequence.

Enjoy this community, enrich yourself as you enrich others. If you have any questions about this community or how it is run, you are welcome to contact the moderator.

Asstronaut

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Asstronaut@lemmy.world
85
‘Slow this thing down’: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Sunflier@lemmy.world to c/futurology@lemmy.world
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I don't think the problem is inherently that AI is coming about. I think the problem is that the rich and powerful are racing to AI when we don't have a social safety-net to handle the mass unemployment this will cause. AI would be fine (mostly) if people weren't also at risk of losing their homes, food, and healthcare because of it. We are racing to replace human thought and production, but not ensuring people will be able to still eat.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw him speak last week. He touched briefly on the subject, and he wasn’t wholly opposed to AI, just wanted to regulate it. He saw the value in what it was going to do for medicine.

And I wholeheartedly agree. Right now AI is in the hands of a few select companies run mostly by billionaires. AI should be a public good, like libraries. Doubly so for the ones that trained on public or unauthorized data.

I like AI, it helps me do my job, helps me with some hobbies, and it helped me with tax decisions the other day. But, laws need to be passed to steer AI for public benefit. I’m glad Bernie is thinking about it that way. I just wish the rest of our politicians would keep up, because this thing is moving fast and we need to be more proactive. Being reactive is going to be much more challenging to keep up.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I always say this in these threads: AI was trained on all human thought so it should belong to all humans.