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Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty and dozens of other groups WWW.BBC.CO.UK The White House says the decision was taken because those entities "no longer serve American interests". So The Donald is now trying to get his sticky fingers on Greenland. No mention of drugs yet; so it seems he only wants it in order to get access to it's raw materials, trade routes and strategic location. All of which are only now starting to become available due to the Climate Breakdown that he so fervently denies. Ironic.

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So, go on then; is his johnson gold plated as well?

Hence the public health and food and farming crises in the UK.

Do you really think that supermarkets are replacing people with self service checkouts to make food cheaper for us, the consumers? Call me cynical, but I don't think so. Profit is king in the beautiful free market. I'd happily pay a premium on a weekly shop to have the privilege of using a traditional checkout, staffed by a real life human. Food is too cheap anyway. Similarly; do you think that AI is being forced on all of us to make our lives better? I don't, and I don't think I'm being cynical either. Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Trump and the other handful of individuals pushing it out don't strike me as altruistic types. Quite the opposite in fact. We are all very much being forced to adopt a poor AI.

Well, oil is like a drug when you think about it. We know it's bad, yet we struggle to wean ourselves off it.

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<AI could end up destroying many boring jobs and replacing them with creative jobs.> - what kind of creative jobs exactly? There won't be much going in music, acting, writing, illustration, graphic design, concept art, etc in a few short years time. But as I've already said: I'm not overly concerned about mass unemployment. Machines have indeed been displacing human workers for at least two hundred years, but they have been doing so entirely at our behest, and tightly controlled by the constraints of their mechanical design. They have not been creating "information" and "news", to dupe the gullible. Also, machines have not been taking away our children's childhoods, or coaching them in how to take their own lives, or grooming them. I think we need to distinguish between machines and AI. I do see AI as fundamentally different from other developments. It's not a linear progression, (for want of a better word). We've never outsourced human thought until now. You often cite the need for human oversight and intervention. That isn't really happening, even at this early stage of the game. It's all being rolled out as fast as possible to maximise influence and profit for the tiny proportion of people that actually benefit from AI. Look a how many major fckups, or "mistakes", Grok has already made for instance.

I do think that car manufacturing employs less people due to robots and automation. When you analyse it on a per car basis. It takes a lot less people to make a car than it used to in 1960. When AGVs, aided and abetted by AI, get fully adopted, there won't even be people driving forklifts around. If there's more people overall, it's because there are more car plants, because there are more cars being (over)consumed now. I don't think that you can extrapolate car manufacturing employment prospects to the impact of AI on the wider jobs market. Creating jobs just to satisfy our expectations and desires, (but not needs), for overconsumption isn't going to be a sustainable model to follow. We're already screwed on that front. We can't just make-more-stuff our way out of the hole we're digging. As I understand it, manufacturing and practical jobs aren't the ones that are most at risk from AI anyway. Though I see they're quite high, but as a percentage of total employment, manufacturing isn't much these days. You're remarkably optimistic about AI in general, are you the 3.85%? I'm more concerned about the meteoric rise in dis&misinformation, rather than mass unemployment. Too many people are falling foul of it already. The fact that it's getting increasingly hard to trust information and "news" deeply unsettles me. It's a sad, bleak world that we're moving into; where so much around us is unnatural and unreal. Progress? No sir.

Brutal.

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That had to be an elaborate spoof story surely.