Der Zukunftsforscher warnt vor der Bedrohung, die künstliche Intelligenz für Angestellte darstellt und vor der beispiellosen existenziellen Krise, die sie in der Öffentlichkeit auslösen könnte, und würdigt gleichzeitig ihren Beitrag zu Forschung und Gesundheitsversorgung.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/05/24/swedish-transhumanist-nick-bostrom-fears-a-pendulum-swinging-too-far-against-ai_6753767_19.html
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His theories are now prominent and have been picked up in a catastrophist political discourse on AI, which, according to Bostrom, a 53-year-old futurologist and transhumanist, overlooks the technology’s potential. „I’m kind of almost worrying about the pendulum swinging too far to the other side. And we are losing track of maybe the upsides,“ the prolific author said in an interview with Le Monde. Bostrom was for many years a professor in the United Kingdom at the University of Oxford, where he founded the Future of Humanity Institute, which has since closed. In his view, AI holds potential for tremendous progress.
And why exactly are people so against AI? Could it be the endless greed and lack of sharing the prosperity? Corporations get what they deserve.
Stop letting the options be to starve or somehow fix the situation and maybe people will be less negative towards new tech.
Pendulum you say?
[https://youtu.be/My2FRPA3Gf8?t=41](https://youtu.be/My2FRPA3Gf8?t=41)
I think a big part of the problem is that business leaders have gotten so hyped about AI that they’ve forgotten all the important lessons that we’ve collectively learned over the past 50+ years. You can easily find quotes from W. Edwards Deming talking about management blunders in the 1970s and 1980s (e.g. short term thinking, only understanding the financial side of the business), and today’s managers are making only slight variations on those same mistakes.
I’m not even fully convinced that there is a strong anti-AI current. Students love using it and so do a lot of professionals. AI has basically become like social media. People complain about them all the time but won’t stop using them.
The only folks to blame are the ones pushing AI to profit from it at the expense of the rest of us. If they hadn’t used it to cut jobs sooner than it is actually possible, if they hadn’t shoved data centers down the throats of small towns, etc, and instead pushed it into areas where it can do the most good, perhaps people wouldn’t hiss at the mere collection of the two letters A and I.
I now sub to everything I see anti-AI and I mute every sub that is suggested to me that is promoting AI. The tide has already shifted.
Governments need to take control and keep up. The real issue is that nobody’s fully in control. Companies move fast because they’re chasing money and power, governments are slow and usually behind the curve, and the tech itself is getting smarter every year. We are living in scary times folks. If you have any young children I suggest they learn a trade like plumbing, electrical, and construction need real hands-on work, so they’ll stay human for decades. Good pay, always hiring, and you can’t outsource a leaky pipe.
Yeah, companies laying off employees en masse to save a few bucks while offering shittier service to customers might have something to do with it. Students are cheating their way through school and speed running college degrees. Perfect.
In AI’s current iterations and without consideration for how it’s ethically I don’t think this is a bad thing. There’s enough expressing we need to pump the breaks.
Imagine that, an old bald rich white guy labeling himself a futurologist thinks AI is good acksually.
We have way to many mediocre white men claiming leadership roles in science.
As a mediocre white bald dude, we aren’t nearly as good at this as we think we are.
AI has uses, it’s just not the replacement for everything anyone does like some companies are trying to push in order to raise unending amounts of capital.
People wouldn’t be against it if there was regulation, protections for those harmed and any, just ANY signal that the techbros leading the charge had an ounce of morals or humanity.
If AI was aligned to be focused on human-centric causes and needs, without eroding human value, soul, and meaning, there wouldn’t be a problem. Instead of finding cures for disease, fixing the environment, solving hunger, war, dangerous or tedious jobs, etc, it is techbros focused on sythesizing, homogenizing, and commodifying absolutely ALL human outputs for the 0.001%
No one wants to live in a global welfare state (if you’re lucky enough to clear the bare minimum) endentured to Technocrats. That’s where we’re headed and everyone knows it (except for the AI grifters).
Or hasn’t it swung far enough… When schools are literally pushing students to let chatGPT do their thinking for them? There is a SERIOUS problem. Not to mention the fact that AI is being used to take the jobs of HUMAN BEINGS. This concept that Elon is throwing out there that AI will lead to this utopia where Humans won’t have to work and will be taken care of doesn’t add up! Such a thing would require the Billionaires to be fairly taxed and UBI to be instituted across the USA. Neither will happen before disaster strikes due to a large portion of the US not being able to survive. No money means no food, no fuel to travel to and from a job they might not get, and no shelter.
Framing the use of AI as contributing to the acceleration of ecological damage and the collapse of humanity is IMO another example of the corporate machines of the world making the common folk carry the guilt for problems they bear most of the liability for. Not saying AI is not without questionable repercussions.
They will convince us that we’re saving the world by not using chatGPT while they continue operating without ethics and profit off of the advantages they gain by using exactly what the regular people are led to believe is bad.
I don’t think it can be stopped. You can’t just outlaw it, it would then just be moved to other countries. There are national security issues as well.
Fuck this guy – he literally thinks we’re all just a ‚SiMuLaTiOn‘ anyway. And I’ll admit, that sort of theory is a VERY elegant way to get to just stop feeling bad about not giving a shit about the rest of the world…
(p.s. when you see other techbro freaks like Sam Harris etc embrace ideas like Buddhism, it’s only selfishly for the same reason: „I can just enjoy my exorbitant privileges with no guilt or pressure to help the rest of the world, since aha nothing matters anyway god-DAMN i’m fucking brilliant“)
How the hell is the AI even capturing the market? They’re worthless censored garbage.
It’d be one thing if I could use AI properly like a tool instead of a nanny saying no every time
The pendulum is a trillion a year being spent on datacenters capex in an increasingly K shaped economy where the middle class disappears. On the other side, people complaining online occasionally about AI.
It seems like a pretty one sided battle, where one side has trillions to build out their dreams and force society onto the technology or get other behind, and the rest have internet complaining.
*Nothing will be done to fix the worst aspects of the technology because losers like this run rampant in humanity where instead of attempting to fix we fear monger the what-if of extremes in attempts to fix. We will end up with the Butlerian Jihad because easier fixes will be ignored for profit until they no longer are viable.*
*“We must negate the machines-that-**think**. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a „dump program.“ We dump the things which destroy us as humans!”*
Oh my ethereal god will these tech bros please just autoerotically asphyxiate already, like god damn
Imo, this guy is not worth amplifying. He’s from the effective altruist space (which has died since it’s primary funder SBF was arrested for fraud) and has racist views that he never really apologized for.
Broken clock and all that, but this is not a new pov.