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Aral Balkan

AI won’t be killing us. People using AI will be killing us. (They already are but it’s only Brown people in the Middle East being murdered so polite white folks in the West couldn’t care less right now. They will soon.)

Aral Balkan

Death by AI doesn’t have to be by drone strike. In the West, it’ll be forced deportations to concentration camps in foreign soils, denied benefits, denied healthcare, and the social ostracism of those flagged as “undesirable” to the point of making it impossible for them to make a living and survive. (See also: cashless society.)

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Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷

@aral <Sigh> Why do the uber-rich despise us so much?

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OnePlanet 💖🇺🇸 🌎

@Tooden @aral

We are merely pawns in their distraction game

Cartoon of a king looking down upon a protest of angry peasants, and his advisor telling the king, “Oh, you don’t need to fight them - you just need to convince the pitchfork people that the torch people want to take away their pitchforks”
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Charlie Stross

@aral @platypusparent The cashless society will take a set-back, of course, when Russia escalates the infrastructure cyberattacks in the run-up to open war and takes down the retail EPOS terminals (as their APT teams are already doing right now to the likes of M&S and the Coop).

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Jonathan Schofield

@aral and denial of water and food to ‘feed’ the ravenous maw of chip fab into GPU pipelines mastodon.social/@urlyman/11106

MastodonNed ‘Jonathan’ Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)…but 2 years on not much has changed: “For the third year in a row, rice farmers in southern Taiwan have not been allowed to plant their crops. Instead, the government is paying them subsidies to *not* grow rice this season, because it uses scarce water that semiconductor plants nearby need” https://www.opb.org/article/2023/04/19/epic-drought-in-taiwan-pits-farmers-against-high-tech-factories-for-water/ The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is investing in water recycling but the conflict between people’s needs and the hunger for semiconductors is not abating
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jonny (good kind)

@aral in the US it's already the case that you can be knocked at any time into bureaucratic hell with no escape and the only way out is often the help of one underpaid overworked civil servant who takes pity on you. can't wait until all their decades of navigating & understanding the brutality of the system is turned into an unknowable blob of statistical language that doesn't feel like it owes anyone any explanation

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TobiWanKenobi

@jonny

You mean the overworked civil servants who are currently being sacked by DOGE?

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Skoop (Stefan Koopmanschap)

@aral and don't forget the other "death by AI" which is the climate change the usage of AI causes. Again, right now mostly happening in the global south to people of color, but the issues climate change causes are getting closer and closer to the polite white folks.

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64 Islands Aroha Cooperative

@aral can’t pick up your prescription because your face looks like a shoplifter’s to the loss-prevention software

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viq

@airshipper @aral or you're wearing a mask, because still no-one made it safe to not do so

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TanekRune

@aral
All they need to do is put travel and benefits behind an AI service gate that rejects anyone they find undesirable. Then anyone outside the system starves.

Bureaucracy does this at fraction of the speed that AI can.

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Phosphenes

@aral

Yeah everybody's looking for the Terminator but the Tin Reaper will look more like an empty stomach and an eviction notice.

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Thorne Lawler

@aral @cstross Exactly this! Nobody is willing to openly enact the whole ‘deemphasis’ thing IRL. That’s why the actual governments of the world will get an algorithm to do it for them.

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