“We were playing with fire.” – Krystal Ball, Breaking Points
AI to cause 20 years of disruption? Bill Gates thinks so. Of course, this is the guy who stated recently the covid pandemic “didn’t work the way I expected.” He isn’t high on the trust meter. Since the pandemic didn’t work out like the ruling class hoped, are AI cyberattacks the new pandemic?
Are these attacks from some independent actor? Malcontents living in their mother’s basement? Actual adversaries? Or our own governments setting up a fake crisis to try to implicate another country? Unfortunately, any one or more of these is a possibility.
Even before these attacks, many see artificial intelligence as just a harmless chatbot, and are not seeing what is coming from those pushing AI:
Job losses.
Digital feudalism.
Cybersecurity chaos.
Vulnerability of the energy grid, finance, and defense.
If nuclear weapons taught us anything, it is that going full-bore into a new technology not fully understanding its power, could unleash humanity-changing consequences.
A Resistance to these excesses of technology has emerged. Not just because of AI, but that has pushed many over the edge. People are tired of the direction of technology. No ownership. Multiple subscriptions. Invasive in your lives. Unsecure information. We were told this would be a great new era, but in many ways, it is quite the opposite.
“Technology used to feel simple and complete. You bought something once. You brought in your home and plugged it in and it simply worked. You didn’t need an account, or wi-fi, you didn’t need to accept terms and conditions to use it.” – Gubba Homestead
This Resistance isn’t going easy on AI either:
“[Opposition to data centers]..was really the bleeding edge of an overall AI resistance…and loss of control to tech oligarchs…There was this sense…these people have taken so much power from us, including what we can have in our own community.” – Krystal Ball, Breaking Points
Datacenters lost big on the ballot on election day. Is the Awakening enough to restrain the tech oligarchs and their dystopian dreams of transhumanism?
Make no mistake, they and all those who strive to reset the world, will not give up so easily.
And neither should you.
