Spot on!
The explosive growth of AI isn’t just a tech trend — it’s becoming a national economic and political gamble. Massive data centers are being built at unsustainable scales, with financial projections that often don’t add up. Insiders privately admit the math doesn't work, yet the public narrative pushes forward — because “AI is the future.”
Taxpayer money is quietly backing much of this. From subsidies for infrastructure to public research funding and government contracts, we’re all becoming unwilling participants. And just like in past bubbles, the risk is being socialized while the profits are privatized.
But this goes deeper than bad economics. What’s really driving this frenzy is fear — a fear that if the U.S. doesn’t lead in AI, someone else (especially China) will. This geopolitical anxiety echoes the Cold War arms race. Then, it was nuclear weapons. Now, it’s compute clusters and language models. And just like then, we’re being told there's no alternative but to go all in.
The problem? No one can say what "winning" this AI race looks like — or whether the path we’re on is sustainable, safe, or even beneficial for the public. It’s time we question who’s really benefiting from this race, and whether our future is being shaped by innovation — or by fear in disguise.
It's so much worse than that post even described. In my view, it's massive money laundering. You have to ask yourself, who benefits here?
or whether the path we’re on is sustainable, safe, or even beneficial for the public
Oh they want sustainable. Safe and/or beneficial for the public? I can assure they could care less about that. If AI gets more people killed (especially in the 3rd world), puts more people in for profit prisons, and soft kills with vaccines cooked up by AI, they'll call all that a success story.
Are you trying to sound like a clanker or just pranking us with an ai-generated comment?
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