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Larry Lathrop's avatar

AI is arguably the most dangerous technological invention ever produced by humans. It can be manipulated just like the human brain, and is potentially even more dangerous. The current criminal element running our government desires no oversight or safeguards on the development or use of AI.

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Barbara Grinell's avatar

I have a Climate Organize. My electric bills have gone up. I didn’t know AI could do power up.

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Paula B.'s avatar

The next thing that's going to happen is that the big AI companies are going to start selling us electricity, just as they do with server space. The cities and the utilities will go broke and they'll have a monopoly. The alternative is to add your own rooftop solar and batteries ASAP. We have them and they're great. Whenever there's an outage we're still going and our bills are much lower.

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Greg Sandman's avatar

This is an aspect few if any have brought to light about AI.

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General Azmundus's avatar

I wanted to show that Congress needs to regulate this before the Criminal in Chief decides to put his grubby little hands into it.

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Greg Sandman's avatar

I hope congress listens. Maybe highlighting the hidden problems will move them to action. It’s a good article.

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General Azmundus's avatar

Thank you!!

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Dennis Fetters's avatar

Not a word about the proliferation of high-electricity usage crypto mines? They're just as much a problem...

https://youtu.be/oHF0W_M3xQY?si=7iHe5MympWpqb6AY

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Marie Riverton's avatar

That's a topic we've considered covering. Unfortunately other headlines have kept preempting it

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Kevin Hester's avatar

AI, like the capitalism that spawned it, has an insatiable appetite, that appetite, like our climate, is on fire.

Added below for obvious reasons.

https://kevinhester.live/2024/03/09/science-snippets-much-of-north-america-faces-electricity-shortages-this-year-2024/

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Aaron Roman's avatar

Good thing I only use Dream Womb AI art generator to generate images for stories on blogger I've written.

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Valerie Starr's avatar

Consumer reporter Clark Howard wrote about this a while ago while informing his readers that they (we, you and I) are footing the bill for the ai power grab. He’s generally apolitical, but warned people to watch out for rising utility bills/rates one thing the oligarchs hate is paying taxes. So guess who gets that bill?

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AndyO's avatar

Another thing everyone could do is jump onto Grok, ChatGPT or any of the other AIs and ask it to design a more efficient, alternative and scalable source of cheap power that meets its future needs and that of the townships around it.

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