Exactly. They have the means to change their behavior. If they don't, they will suffer the consequences. Just like mussolini and Gaddafi
The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives
3 months ago by return2ozma to c/technology
Fishnoodle 27 points 3 months ago
BottleBoardBakon 49 points 3 months ago
Good.
dylanmorgan 19 points 3 months ago
I would actually say this is very good.
MushuChupacabra 40 points 3 months ago
If you're going to be intentionally evil, you should probably do a lot of checking over your shoulder.
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to be a bodyguard for someone with crowd-sourced enemies.
CADmonkey 3 points 3 months ago
The bodyguard thing makes me wonder.
More and more of these guys will want protection. They will likely hire this protection. And as more protection is needed, vetting the people that provide that protection will become less strict.
And sooner or later, you have someone with a gun and a motive walking right beside Bob the Billionaire.
MushuChupacabra 2 points 3 months ago
Billions of potential suspects.
ZephyrXero 31 points 3 months ago
To use their own words against them...
We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind investors that the workers have the power, not the other way around.
moustachio 21 points 3 months ago
They really have been just screaming for capitalism to be dismantled, haven’t they?
It’s kind of embarrassing we’ve gone along with this system as long as we have.
aurellence 26 points 3 months ago
Fuck around, find out.
BillyClark 15 points 3 months ago
What I thought the article was going to be about, assuming it was clickbait: Tech Executives losing their jobs after losing their company's money on AI, or Tech Executives realizing that it's their jobs that could most easily be replaced by AI.
What the article was actually about: Literally murder threats and firebombing their houses and that sort of thing.
I have no comment beyond being surprised that the headline was literal.
WanderingThoughts 15 points 3 months ago
This shouldn't come as any surprise. Unions came about to negotiate over reasonable terms for work because people started to burn down mansions of factory owners, with or without the guy's family inside. Or just cyberpunk 2077 where chapter 1 shows all the nice tech and then some folks nuke the corporate headquarter and kidnap corporate techs. I mean that's a serious hint.
RockBottom 5 points 3 months ago
The started thinking it through just that one step further.
pirate2377 5 points 3 months ago
Welcome to our world
Bubbaonthebeach 4 points 3 months ago
Somehow I think AI execs missed the part that if there is money, land, fuel and water enough to build hundreds of data centers the size of towns, then there should be the same available to house & feed the people of the nation. If there is far more capital to be thrown in the garbage to try to get top billing on a product that doesn't yet work and may never work, it is impossible to believe that the problems assailing 50%0or more of the population cannot be addressed.
uriel238 2 points 3 months ago
Paywall free: Thank you, MSN
RoddyStiggs 2 points 3 months ago
We don't need them if their products work
dunestorm 1 point 3 months ago
I don't condone violence but, these assholes are the ones that got us into this mess. There's no accountability, no liability for their actions; whether they meant for any of this to happen or didn't. We're living in a world where AI has caused way more problems and economic instability than before.
It's fair to say AI has made the world a considerably worse place than it was prior. It's impacting jobs, supply, replacing thinking with using a chatbot for absolutely everything. If it was up to me, I'd rather have no AI and go back to what we had before than it just completely ruining every industry it touches (which is nearly all of them).
Eternal192 0 points 3 months ago
As long as you motherfuckers breathe our lives will get better.
You destroy our environment, our lives and our future.
Be afraid, too long you have lived comfortably at our expense.
Judgement and recompense is coming.
technology
@lemmy.world
88744
22214
14627
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
go to feed...
technology
@lemmy.world
88744
22214
14627
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
go to feed...
About fucking time.
Citizen's United (and similar corruption) took away our ability to regulate tech billionaires, but we still out number them.
If they want to stop being scared, they can curb their parasitic behaviors and return the billions they have extracted.
Edit: Getting off of the list of the world's billionaires is a path filled with fancy meals, accolades, ribbon cutting ceremonies, and thank-you letters from happier children.
Billionaires have a moral obligation to a cushy job (become non-billionares), and they aren't doing it, today.
save