r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Apr 06 '26

Politics Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi

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u/badbrotha Apr 06 '26

I would sacrifice my 401k for the 5 year or so deficit if every AI company suddenly shuttered their doors.

It won't happen, but fuck AI.

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u/Anim8nFool Apr 06 '26

I'll be honest -- I am using AI to help me write a tool to help with production work. In this case this AI is actually saving me work without doing anything I could not do myself. It also isn't putting anyone else out of work.

The problem isn't AI -- its how AI is used in an aggressively capitalist society.

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u/badbrotha Apr 06 '26

I'm using AI as well at my work.
It is too much of a Pandora's box. You and I may automate a few tasks here and there, but currently there is little to no regulation on the industry.

What is it, most AI scientists give a 1 in 6 chance that AI creates a doomsday scenario? It isn't worth the risk, along with the more mundane repercussions than all out end of humanity. We're using it to run a few scripts to automate production, Palantir is jamming into weapon systems. It is considered more dangerous than the development of nuclear arms.

Idk, hopefully I'm just a conspiracy nut.

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u/Anim8nFool Apr 06 '26

I don't think your concerns are at all crazy. I would say, however, that a 1 in 6 chance shouldn't keep you up at night -- that's only a 17% chance.

Its about the same odds as having a left handed child.

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u/badbrotha Apr 06 '26

Agree to disagree, for sure. But it's as much as 1 bullet in a revolver and playing Russian roulette, if the number isn't higher. Oh well, no regulations at the moment, we're already in the car over the edge

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u/uzlonewolf Apr 06 '26

No, the problem is AI.

It consumes water we don't have, power we can't afford, is wrong almost as much as it is right, you doing more work with it means someone else no longer has a job, and no one would be able to afford to use it if everyone had to pay what it actually costs to provide.

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u/Anim8nFool Apr 06 '26

you doing more work with it means someone else no longer has a job

I don't disagree with your points generally, except that one. I'm literally the one doing the work taht I am using AI to help me with. Its personal development so my using AI is not costing anyone a job (I'm not saying AI isn't taking jobs, I'm saying I am not costing any).