Hating AI in 2026
3 hours ago
- #Climate impact
- #AI critique
- #Ethical technology
- The author, a machine learning practitioner, is critical of the current hype around AI, especially chatbots, viewing them as next-word-generating machines without true understanding.
- Large tech companies are heavily investing in AI, focusing on scaling models with high energy costs, despite climate concerns, leading to social and environmental harms.
- AI users often ignore critiques about these harms, as powerful entities push for AI adoption, creating a dissonance between beliefs and actions.
- The author argues that avoiding AI is a practical ethical choice to support human and environmental rights, unlike other unavoidable exploitations in daily life.
- The situation is compared to the 2002 Iraq war lead-up, where critics were dismissed, highlighting a pattern of ignoring moral arguments in favor of technological progress driven by profit.