Comment Re:Serious criminality all around... (Score 2) 33
"Why are these people not stopped?" By whom? The alleged Justice Dept. which has consumed itself and lost all its best attorneys? Or the alleged administration who will look the other way for a bit of coin under the table? State laws cannot be strong enough so State AGs have little with which to fight.
"That they are doing this crap only to create the illusion of how powerful their toys are is also clear." I do not believe that is the case and right now we are on either side of our beliefs. We do not know and the AI companies are not telling us. What is plausible is that if they do not self report these incidents and they come out, then they will look that much worse. They are already losing PR battle.
They were destined to lose that battle when they opened with, "AI will make all you workers redundant." When they saw the results of saying that, then they miraculously found out that AI would create jobs. Their data centers have such an appetite for electricity that they will raise rates. Once the pols that they had paid off for "special favors" found out about that, the pols declared they were "for" the data center companies creating their own power plants.
The data center companies are not averse to that, so they are doubling down on CO2 producing power plants. That will only make the climate crisis worse. The data center companies do not care, neither does the alleged administration. Once they lock in their winnings, they figure they can buy enough air conditioning and other essentials to live out their lives.....their grand kids won't but they do not care about them either.
The AI execs also do not care. Read their writings. They figure if they create a gonzowopper AI thingy, they can create silicon versions of themselves or fix themselves not to die. Their goal is to "go to the stars". They aren't the brightest lot. You cannot get there from here, at least not in a few billion years at the speeds we can attain. No problemo, they'll just put themselves in stasis or if they are silicon, they can just exist.
I suppose no one has explained engineered systems to them. Engineered systems break down, they rarely last 50 years now, too many things can go wrong. So they'll get about 200 years out, max, and then they'll be no more, silicon or human altered selves. The burnt Earth will still orbit its star, without our descendants.
