They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
As someone who practices both of these concerns, I really don’t understand the name.
And I must add that as a veteran of the other movement, when you say “I am” you are creating a distinguishable sense of otherness in relation to others. I also practice “Zero Waste” but I don’t call myself a “Zero Waster” (which is also never zero) or announce myself as an “Environmentalist” either.
These self ascribed descriptors are always a mistake. Yes, I do believe that everyone should share these concerns to the best of their abilities and what their setting and context allows, but in the end there is nothing different about me or anyone else who shares these same concerns.
As someone who disapproves of how A.I. is being built and used, and that its cost from an environmental concern to a societal concern, has the hazards far outweighing the benefits in both, there’s still no need to call us here anything for having that concern, is there?
But I’m going to share a piece of wisdom that I’ve gotten from practicing the other ethical concerns.
“Convenience” is what is gonna destroy the whole world.
And I’ve been saying this for almost two decades now. Most people will always choose convenience regardless of the consequences.
This is not gonna be any different.
The most successful way we can check this new mess is by attacking with legislation and regulations that are currently almost nowhere to be seen.
Most will never care much to consider the consequences of their decisions or actions. We don’t need a descriptor for that either. Is just what it is.
The scariest part of A.I. is that it consumes the enormous amounts of energy it does and enormous quantities of water we don’t have, only to optimize the efficency and rate in how all other hazards occur, as production and consumption of everything is increased in a blink.
And from a meta-space perspective it is horrifying to ponder what is to come because of it.
As someone who practices both of these concerns, I really don’t understand the name.
And I must add that as a veteran of the other movement, when you say “I am” you are creating a distinguishable sense of otherness in relation to others. I also practice “Zero Waste” but I don’t call myself a “Zero Waster” (which is also never zero) or announce myself as an “Environmentalist” either.
These self ascribed descriptors are always a mistake. Yes, I do believe that everyone should share these concerns to the best of their abilities and what their setting and context allows, but in the end there is nothing different about me or anyone else who shares these same concerns.
As someone who disapproves of how A.I. is being built and used, and that its cost from an environmental concern to a societal concern, has the hazards far outweighing the benefits in both, there’s still no need to call us here anything for having that concern, is there?
But I’m going to share a piece of wisdom that I’ve gotten from practicing the other ethical concerns.
“Convenience” is what is gonna destroy the whole world.
And I’ve been saying this for almost two decades now. Most people will always choose convenience regardless of the consequences.
This is not gonna be any different.
The most successful way we can check this new mess is by attacking with legislation and regulations that are currently almost nowhere to be seen.
Most will never care much to consider the consequences of their decisions or actions. We don’t need a descriptor for that either. Is just what it is.
The scariest part of A.I. is that it consumes the enormous amounts of energy it does and enormous quantities of water we don’t have, only to optimize the efficency and rate in how all other hazards occur, as production and consumption of everything is increased in a blink.
And from a meta-space perspective it is horrifying to ponder what is to come because of it.
This very thought ran through my head not 48 hours ago. I’m a little creeped out. 😬
Hahaha
Not at all. It makes me feel less alone when that happens.
But, yeah, two decades of environmental and Animal Rights activism have thought me that my arguments can never compete with convenience.
My conversations regarding A.I. go the same way.