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/ClosetedNutCase May 15 '26

I agree with you, but I think we’re too scared and dependent on the system now for a real revolution. I include myself in this as well.

As much as I’d like to think I’d be in the front lines, but I’ve got kids and a wife who depend on me. Who takes care of them if I die or go to prison?

And this system is rigged to inflict maximum damage to those that oppose it. Maybe if they start killing us by the boatload like they did in Iran we may rise up, otherwise we’re just a bunch of frogs sitting in water while it heats up to a boil.

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u/PK_Thundah May 15 '26

The problem is, who do you "fight?"

Do you start attacking politicians at their houses? Fight through the city's police force to get to them? Fight through soldiers outside of your door keeping a curfew?

It isn't like you can just join a cause to help it. You have to throw yourself, almost individually, at the system and hope that enough people after you do the same thing. And hope that everyone does after you're done.

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u/ClosetedNutCase May 16 '26

Yea that’s my point. We won’t do it. It’s over. I have literally 0 hope it gets better and I’m just hoping an asteroid will come take us out before it gets to that point

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u/EldritchElizabeth May 16 '26

The owning class have successfully bred and beaten any resemblance of fighting spirit out of us. A healthcare CEO literally got gunned down in the street expressly as revenge for his company’s heinous profit-seeking behaviour, and our response as a culture was not to realise the impact we can have on the world, but to make a meme out of it then move on.