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your analogy is ridiculous. food is required for our existence, and under capitalism it is indeed bad and will be used to feed unnecessary amounts of cattle. Psychosis inducing AI tools for people to output shittier incorrect information is not required for human existence, and under capitalism it will always result in data centers destroying low income communities and polluting
Industrial agriculture is not required for human existence, humanity lived fine for millenia without it. Also you could say the same about cars, cell phones, the Internet, electricity etc. Not sure how AI is any different here.
Yes, "under capitalism", same as how under capitalism industrial agriculture destroys the environment and how people get addicted to Internet porn and how cheap plastic crap overproduction pollutes the planet and the list goes on. None of these technologies are bad in of themselves and you recognize that for everything but AI. Your position is just plain ludditism based on emotion.
With a global population of 8 billion, yes it is. Unless you are planning on mass starvation or eugenics campaigns, yes industrialized agriculture is required for human existence.
Mass cattle production is not, but under unregulated market conditions it will occur nonetheless.