US citizens are far less optimistic about AI than about Donald fucking Trump.

15% of Americans are trying to sell something AI.

In the Alpha Cenauri game there was a wonder you could build called The Longevity Vaccine. If you were a planned economy two sad citizens were made happy at every city. Amazing. If you were Green economy it made happy one per base. Amazing.

If you were capitalists, the base that built it made a bunch of money and nothing else. It's a lot of money, but isn't global.

It's the only wonder like that. And I've been thinking of it more lately.

And most of those are probably higher ups at the big corporations.

Trust me. I know. The more you go up the ladder the more deluded they become.

Almost like AI psychosis is a reflection of corporate yes man psychosis.

We don't like it, we don't think that it is good for us, but we still use it.

Sounds like drugs to me, no?

Probably the only beneficial AI are open source. Are there such any?

Ah yes

Pew poll

I wonder what the results would have been if they hadn't combined "very" and "somewhat" results. There's a lot of nuance there that would still be poorly reflected with a gradient, so removing it seems like an odd decision.

Most of the people I talk to about AI seem to either think it has potential but is often being poorly utilized, or they dislike it entirely. I don't know too many people who are unequivocally positive about it. Maybe they're right-wingers.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness

And 23.1% of Americans live with some sort of mental illness.

There's definitely a can vs should conversation that our society seems incapable of.

"wow look at this terrible thing we're collectively doing. It's a shame we can't just... you know... not do that but oh well."

Management at the horrible mega-corp I work at is extremely frothy about AI. They just did a big all-hands where they said they want 100% adoption of AI. Whatever that means.

Wonder what the numbers would be on the Internet positively impacting society, as AI has a lot of the same harms and benefits of the Internet. It gives people easy access to a lot more information, but it also gives them access to a lot more bullshit.

Even after we've had years for it fully develop IDK if I'd say the Internet is positively impacting society.