WSJ: The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-ai-backlash-has-tech-executives-fearing-for-their-lives-30c43972

by testfoobar • 8 days ago

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WarOnPrivacy• 8 days ago

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gnabgib• 8 days ago

Title: The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives

zahlman• 8 days ago

“What has surprised me is how bad it’s gotten over such a short period of time,” said Jonathan Graff, Liferaft’s CEO. The number of threats declined somewhat in June.

I think they just haven't been paying attention. The opposition goes back to the dawn of ChatGPT, if not further.

Edit: good lord, the comment section over there is atrocious.

bluefirebrand2• 8 days ago

Good. They should fear for their lives as much as they are making their employees fear for their livelihoods.

Maybe if a bunch of executives get dragged into the streets and torn apart by angry mobs, they'll realize as a group that they need to treat their employees less like cogs and more like people

Jamesbeam• 7 days ago

Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.

How would dragging a bunch of executives into the street and tearing them apart actually help? It’s nonsense to go to jail for life or getting the dp because some corporate lackey does his job.

The executives are by design replaceable, even the CEO. OpenAI doesn’t suddenly die because someone murdered Scam Altman, or a bunch of old people sitting on the board of directors.

Their infrastructure is fair game, though. Which means boycotting the data centres to deny them the oxygen they need to survive. These companies are so full of investor money they need to grow, no data centres, no growth, company collapses when investors find out they got scammed hard.

And by going for their infrastructure, I don’t mean with molotovs or industrial cable cutters, I mean the old fashioned way. Find people in your city that want to shape its future for the better and organise. Then force the city council and mayor to pledge allegiance to the people instead of the machines. Once your city is guaranteed data Centre free, look for the next thing to improve.

It works, it’s violence-free, and the outcome is a lot better than spending life in jail.

bluefirebrand2• 7 days ago

It works, it’s violence-free

I'm not interested in violence free, I'm interested in putting the people looting out society for their own benefit in the goddamn ground

coldbrewed• 8 days ago

Wait a minute, weren't these the same people using layoffs and RTO to take down their employees down a couple of notches? And the people who were telling the world that AI would destroy white collar work? Could these possibly be the same people that indicated that AI might wipe out humanity?

At least they're not using their money to swing politics to their favor or being the US administration.

Or were the same people A/B testing their apps to "maximize user engagement" to the detriment of society.

Anywho, we should all unionize. No relation to the above, just seems like a neat idea.

burnt-resistor• 8 days ago

Wage suppression and DARVO.. CEOs and billionaires are the real victims here.

paradox242• 8 days ago

When you are telling every media outlet and investor that you are building a system which intends to capture all of the economic value, then don't be surprised when people take you at your word.

leecommamichael• 7 days ago

WSJ: The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives

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