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After three years, it seems to me that public anti-AI sentiment in the West is now at its highest point. The primary driver, by far, is not x-risk but concerns about employment and the impact on art. In fact, much of the anti-AI public not only doesn't take x-risk seriously, but broadly sees it as marketing; a way to overstate AI's potential power - something they don't believe is real - in order to fuel investment, adoption, acceptance, and an aura of inevitability. If this is accurate, safety advocacy might have been more effective, and might now be in a much stronger position, if they had emphasized societal and economic impacts more than x-risk over the last few years.

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

We can live without AI. what we cannot live without is fresh water, farmers, agriculture, land. stop supporting ai because it is destroying our planet.

🚨 SHE GAVE ARBY’S 22 YEARS OF HER LIFE - THEY PAY HER ONLY $13 AN HOUR This grandma says she’s worked at Arby’s for 22 YEARS. She was hired at around $10.25 an hour. Two decades later? $13. That’s it. No reward for loyalty. No real raises. Just inflation eating her alive while the company keeps moving on. People in the comments are furious because this isn’t rare. It’s normal. If this is “hard work pays off”… who exactly is it paying?