We are in the age of AI, why not just accept it? Are people threatened by this? Are they disgusted? This is the start of my research. I have learned to use AI in a way that makes my life easier. So why so much hate against it? Are they jealous? Please debate but don’t argue in the comments. I want a civil debate. Intelligible answers only.
The simple answer is fear.
They’re worried about many of the facets that relate to this, primarily how it will affect them personally via things like job losses or increased personal costs (electricity rates are a big one right now).
It’s amusing because the “It’s bad for the environment” crowd is either a) really stupid or b) using it as an excuse because they don’t want to say they’re worried about their jobs.
These people care very little about their environmental impact via other aspects of their life that are FAR more significant than AI will ever be. Meat production alone consumes like 20-25% of global energy usage, and AI is at around 0.3-0.4% of global total energy use. People eating meat one day less per week would save more energy than AI is even predicted to use in a worse case scenario in the next 20 years.
Now clearly there are some vegetarians around these days, but even most of those are doing it for ethical animal reasons rather than because of energy use issues. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10100114/
However, while I continue to see these people drive their SUV home from the AI protest, stop at the grocery store to pick up a steak for dinner, and then cook it in their 2500 square foot house that only holds 3 people I’m going to ignore their whining about energy and the environment. They’re nothing but scared hypocrites.