The solutions are actually incredibly straightforward.
1. Lobbying is bribery, criminalize it.
2. ~~An additional 20% tax on A.I companies to fund environmental projects and water reclamation.~~ AI isn’t profitable yet. The government should fund locally run, open source initiatives to cut out the middle men and collect taxes on energy bills instead.
3. Universal basic income
4. Education uses some of the most archaic methods for learning because the measures of success are so easily manipulated. If your students are circumventing your processes, your processes are wrong. Time to think differently about how humans learn.
Let’s not kid ourselves, there’s enough idle money sat in oligarch bank accounts to pay for all this twice over. By the time they are incentivised to hand it over, it will be too late so let’s just skip to the part where they hand it over.
tldr: A.I. is bad.
Honestly, though. the reason that are given here are kinda ….misleading?
>A.I. uses this much water because of the computing power it requires, which necessitates chilled water to cool down equipment—some of which then evaporates in the cooling process, meaning that it cannot be reused.
This is a non-issue, for many reasons. ( don’t use water cooling/don’t use water/better containment system). This feels like a fearmongering statement.
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>It pollutes food and water and causes air pollution to nearby communities
No. Humans dumping e-waste causes that, not because the computer is running. Don’t dump a building full of servers in the dump, and this wont be an issue.
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>A.I. will consume much more energy than expected, straining our grids
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The solutions are actually incredibly straightforward.
1. Lobbying is bribery, criminalize it.
2. ~~An additional 20% tax on A.I companies to fund environmental projects and water reclamation.~~ AI isn’t profitable yet. The government should fund locally run, open source initiatives to cut out the middle men and collect taxes on energy bills instead.
3. Universal basic income
4. Education uses some of the most archaic methods for learning because the measures of success are so easily manipulated. If your students are circumventing your processes, your processes are wrong. Time to think differently about how humans learn.
Let’s not kid ourselves, there’s enough idle money sat in oligarch bank accounts to pay for all this twice over. By the time they are incentivised to hand it over, it will be too late so let’s just skip to the part where they hand it over.
tldr: A.I. is bad.
Honestly, though. the reason that are given here are kinda ….misleading?
>A.I. uses this much water because of the computing power it requires, which necessitates chilled water to cool down equipment—some of which then evaporates in the cooling process, meaning that it cannot be reused.
This is a non-issue, for many reasons. ( don’t use water cooling/don’t use water/better containment system). This feels like a fearmongering statement.
​
>It pollutes food and water and causes air pollution to nearby communities
No. Humans dumping e-waste causes that, not because the computer is running. Don’t dump a building full of servers in the dump, and this wont be an issue.
​
>A.I. will consume much more energy than expected, straining our grids
…yeah. this one is probably true.