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AI Is a Threat to All of Humanity

Paul Craig Roberts 

AI’s advantages have been over-estimated and its costs underestimated.  I read recently of a large project entrusted to AI involving a number of corporations that failed so badly that high-priced human experts had to be brought in to rectify the situation.  Overall, the project cost more than the promised AI savings.  

AI has many costs that were simply ignored.  There are human costs. Such as unemployment and isolation.  People don’t learn data sources, their problems, or how to use them.  They don’t need to know grammar or how to write, and so on.  Then there are economic costs.  Much electricity is required.  Many data centers are being built or overbuilt, and people living in their vicinity are experiencing a doubling and tripling of electric bills, because demand has outrun supply.  The money needed to build the data centers pulls money away from other investments. Jack Gamble suspects that the financing involved is fraudulent and that Nvidia and the others could experience large declines in their stock prices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuPL0H-xNNc 

Perhaps the largest costs of AI is the demise of education and the control over truth that it gives to whoever controls the data base. Students whose papers are written by AI never have to read books and absorb the information sufficiently to write a paper.  They do not need to know grammar or how to spell as AI does that for them. Already school kids do not need to learn the multiplication tables because they have computers, and they do not need to learn cursive because they use keyboards or voice command.  They do not need knowledge and the ability to think, because they can ask AI.........more.......