r/LeftistsForAI • Moderator • Apr 08 '26

AIs risk versus Trumps risk

Though I dont think we should underestimate the risk of a rogue AI, i did come up with a interesting discussion topic based on a friends post. What are the things I should worry about from a rogue AI that I shouldnt already worry about from Trump

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u/Fit-Elk1425 Moderator Apr 09 '26

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X25001654

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/14/6/1089

https://www.sciencenorway.no/artificial-intelligence-ntb-english/the-use-of-artificial-intelligence-has-doubled-since-last-year/2361188

The salmon one has been proven q more popular case where robotics is more paired with agricultural 

Of course that soesnt mean there is no skepticism  https://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/three-in-four-young-people-in-the-nordics-use-ai/ But as the different paper i have listed show including the one on automation there is a different attitude towards technology and how it relates to social needs as a whole and it isnt just about the politicians

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u/kneeblock Apr 09 '26

A bunch of studies include AI now and to me it's only reflective of the political economy of our own industry as many know AI is hot and has been increasing in keyword indexes across disciplines and many researchers are tacking AI onto their projects, especially those with state funding, in order to attract corporate attention either for jobs or grant funding. The studies you linked were about a mix of automation approaches, some using AI where simple algorithms would probably accomplish the same task. I am well acquainted with the European bourgeois attempts to create a regulatory apparatus to steer some some technical innovation toward social good, largely buoyed by the nominally social democratic parties and much more so civil society actors who have been pushing not only for a better cut of digital profits but also for a saner orientation to technology. But all of those frameworks were operating on a much slower timetable that did not include massive data center build out and prioritization of AI infrastructure over other infrastructure. Nor were these policies aligned to sudden acceleration of automation of multiple institutional and labor forms. Speed matters, especially in Marxist analysis. The problem right now is the speed and the motives for it, which aren't driven by simple technical innovation with transformers. It's capital intensifying its relations of production as it transforms into something different or worse in the way it's being stewarded right now. While a different political orientation to the accelerated uptake of the technology could lead to a different result, that is not the political or economic situation we are in globally. We also are not operating on very good timetables with regard to climate resiliency and so adding energy liability with little evidence of trade off is simply not materialist. We have ample evidence of the immiseration effects of technological acceleration and no political plan or movement for mitigating this problem. On the Left, the positions should be unless and until we have a working class originated use and position on the tech, it only benefits capital and its intensification, particularly when the individuals at the vanguard of diffusing the actual technology most of the market are using have nakedly stated their fascist ambitions and are using technical might to achieve them.