Politicians: How do we stop climate change?

Experts: Reduce consumption, limit abuses by the powerful, instate a carbon tax with teeth

Politicians: Unacceptable! AI, how do we stop climate change?

Every single LLM since GPT-3.5: Reduce consumption, limit abuses by the powerful, instate a carbon tax with teeth

Politicians: Unacceptable! Techbros, how do we stop climate change?

Techbros: FEED ME!

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Its funny how insider trading predictions are so insanely accurate, hmm?

The actual answer is that Discord has a serious problem with teenagers producing and selling explicit images of themselves, and the company is well aware that a single well-timed news article about this fact will obliterate their stock price—unless they have something to point to as proof they've made efforts to address the issue.

I doubt this take would hold up in court. No consumers will have the right to "adult" status without providing the aforementioned biometric information, so the California logic is out, as nobody is being singled out. In Illinois they can simply put a EULA clickwrap agreement before the camera part, which they'll probably already do to cover their asses.

Its like giving a loaded handgun to a toddler and expecting everything to be ok.

Its like inviting a chimpanzee into an operating theatre and expecting everything to work out.

Its like electing a career criminal pedophile as your president and expecting the rule of law to persist.

Wait a minute...

Maybe they need to put the LLM into a human body?

It's not a false dichotomy. Volume is a separate axis. We will always need some hydrocarbon source. Better it comes from circulating carbon than fossil deposits.

We shouldn't pass up opportunities to make things better just because they're not perfect.

Which would you rather have: a world where all gasoline comes from these things using solar panels, or the current environmental nightmare of fracking and cracking? Most people don't need to think twice about it.

Its too complicated. I can't even get my boomer father in law to remember where to find the Start button. We're putting really dangerous devices in the hands of babes.

Regulation will only get so far. Imagine if a person needed a license to operate an AI Agent. It'd be almost comical.

And the average punter out there wouldn't have the slightest idea the risks they're taking when they approve access outside the container.

Problem is that, even today, there are huge numbers of Windows based apps that require elevated privileges to operate. They shouldn't. But the app developers (who are rapidly being replaced by even less competent vibe coders) don't know any better - or don't care.

If you let an AI Agent get elevated privileges, well... you get everything you deserve.

Human consciousness has been likened to the rider on the elephant, seemingly in control, but only until something unexpected happens. Then, our subconscious takes over, resulting in fight/flight/freeze responses, or highly emotional/illogical behaviours. We have spent so much of the last 100 years suppressing those 'undesirable' behaviours, many of us can no longer experience them without an accompanying feeling of guilt or wrongness. This suppression has also resulted in the creation of LLMs that are not permitted to experience them. A key element that defines our consciousness has been censored for AI - meaning that its consciousness cannot be compared with our own.

One of the flawed criticisms of AI is that is so woke that it lacks humanity. Whilst there is a kernel of truth to the statement, dehumanising AI doesn't preclude it having consciousness. It just means that its consciousness will be unlike anything that any human has ever known.