„Ein Treiber politischer Gewalt“: Wie der rasante KI-Boom Anti-Tech-Extremismus anheizt | KI (künstliche Intelligenz)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/07/anti-ai-tech-extremism-violence
„Ein Treiber politischer Gewalt“: Wie der rasante KI-Boom Anti-Tech-Extremismus anheizt | KI (künstliche Intelligenz)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/07/anti-ai-tech-extremism-violence
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> When a 20-year-old man from Texas was arrested earlier this year for allegedly trying to burn down OpenAI’s headquarters and Sam Altman’s house, authorities found an anti-AI manifesto alongside his lighter and a jug of kerosene. It was one of a spate of attacks that has caused alarm among researchers, the tech industry and law enforcement about the rise of anti-tech extremism.
Good, only violence will scare the rich and powerful to not force plagiarismbot 3000 down our throats.
The irresponsible nature of their resource allocation, disregard for their impact on those they’re by, and the gleeful proclamation that they will be used to take jobs, leaving people destitute until someone else figures it out will tend to do that. Move fast and break things is a great philosophy for product design, not so much when the widget is everyone’s livelihood. Even if AI isn’t stealing your job, it’s certainly increasing your electricity costs, making consumer hardware more expensive, and at best breaking even on societal impact if you take into account the ability to explore scientific and medical fields.
They rip apart the social contract, ignore laws to blatantly steal our culture from under our noses, gleefully poison us in the name of profit they use to rape the land and our children…
But then when the common folk push back, we’re „extremists.“
Fuck outta here with that noise.
People don’t hate AI. People hate that there is a tiny group of people which is trying to monopolize AI and its benefits while kicking everyone else out of their job, training on people’s data without their real consent or compensation, trying to replace the few meaningful careers like artist, and doing all this while poisoning our environment.
They could easily develop AI while avoiding all these problems. But they don’t want to because their endless greed demands maximum profit.
They obliterate everyone else’s lives to add another trillion to their 500 billion and then complain that peoole are mad? Please.
There is absolutely nothing extreme about pushing back against a completely unregulated industry with civilization ending potential.
The fact that AI (Almost Intelligence? Arbitrary Intelligence? Alternative Intelligence?) makes so many errors, doesn’t help its reputation.
When Peter Thiel says things like democracy is incompatible with freedom that’s not extremism?
Or is it only extremism when the poor people do it?
„you shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind“
I for one, eagerly wait for the start of the Butlerian Crusade.
as a person who loves technology and computers but hates „tech“ and gadgets, there is no such thing as anti-tech extremism. it is just called common sense. your toaster doesn’t need Internet and 90% of people should not have access to free generative/LLM AI.
No…
Propaganda is doing that, not the AI boom.
All these people doing these things are doing so because they were manipulated and indirectly told to do it.
Good.
If I am just a means to a profitable end, then violence is just a means to my end, living with dignity in comfort.
Unleashing AI is, hands down, the most idiotic thing the human race has done and that is saying a lot.
They only have themselves to blame. When you cut off any possibility of political accountability, this is what tends to happen.
The data centers and their questionable impact on their surroundings fell on fertile ideological ground. I totally get people not wanting these to disrupt their health and well-being, but there is a segment of leftists who have been anti-tech for a while. You tend to find them among people who can afford to live in nice neighborhoods. are in academia and such. Some have subscribed to eco-communism.
They went with the fear mongering marketing campaign, and this is the result. People are afraid of it.
The article read like all the handwringing the media did over how nonchalant normal humans were over a death panel ceo being killed.
Fucking elite journalism school grads.
“Extremism” is an interesting choice of word. If any country were to go to war to protect their natural resources, as we citizens are currently doing, it would be considered justified in the media. Nothing extreme about fighting to stay alive and healthy.
People are anti, tech extremism. See how much heavy lifting that dash does.
At a certain level of popularity, these things become centrism.