drones, i'm thinking drones as larry fink suggested; 

 

Public opposition to artificial intelligence and its infrastructure is growing.

It is erupting at protests, county meetings, school board hearings, and rural town halls.

As AI data centers multiply at extraordinary speed, Americans are beginning to feel the costs in their own communities. These facilities consume vast amounts of water and power, destroy farmland, strain local ecosystems and fragile grids, and leave residents facing higher utility costs.

But the concern runs deeper.

Many Americans can also sense the political direction. Data centers do not merely power chatbots and AI slop. They form the backbone of the emerging digital prison: surveillance systems, digital IDs, programmable money, automated censorship, predictive policing, and behavioral scoring.

The same AI boom is also threatening work itself. A Senate HELP Committee report warned last June that AI and automation could replace nearly 100 million U.S. jobs over the next decade.

In other words, communities are being asked to absorb the physical burden of a system that may replace their jobs, monitor their lives, and reduce citizenship to managed behavior inside a machine.

Now, according to a new WIRED report, federal agencies are closely watching the backlash. “Anti-tech extremism,” broadly defined, can pertain to real violence — which should and can be addressed by local law-enforcement. But the label can also sweep in lawful protesters, AI skeptics, privacy and environmental advocates, and ordinary citizens simply saying “no.”.........more...........