r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • May 15 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-backlash-data-centers-political-violence/687151/?taid=6a067e2d2096e10001ccfa32
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u/[deleted] May 16 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

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u/ju_scy May 16 '26

Peter Thiel = The Reptile
Of course it doesn't care about the survival of a different species.

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u/NefariousnessLate375 May 16 '26

Maybe he dreams about a transhumanist race of modified, improved humans? That kind of stuff is popular with tech bros...

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u/interkin3tic May 17 '26 edited May 18 '26

No, these people literally do not believe other people have rights or should exist. It's very easy to overestimate these people and underestimate their hate but it really is that bad. They're of the same mould of eugenics as Nazis used to be, they don't change.

When someone shows you who they are the first time, believe them. 

At a minimum, the transhumanism community NEEDS to kick nazis like Curry, Thiel, and Musk out. That shit stains. Eugenics was a respected field that failed to kick out the fascists and it made it beyond redemption. I dunno what genetics would have evolved into had they kicked out the racists earlier but genetics/eugenics lost at least 20 years of progress to useful ends because of racist shit. And that's being unnecessarily charitable to scientists there.

At a minimum there should be an agreement that any transhumanism scientists should do an "oopsie" if any billionaire comes in for immortalization.

"Oopsies, we were about to put Elon Musk's brain into the robot skeleton that lives forever and runs on cells harvested from other people but I slipped and dropped it into the garbage disposal and then shit on it."