Long been a listener of the This is Not a Drill podcast, but Gavin Esler’s interview this week with Bruce Schneier, in “Big Tech, A.I. and the dictators – Inside the future of authoritarianism” is maybe one of the best episodes I’ve caught. It has the spoilers about how democracy ends. Enjoy.
It's not that there are no valid uses of the tech stack we presently call 'AI' but so much of Gen AI's market investment is dedicated to unsolving solved problems. Take representing reality. We already have it. Fabricating realistic images makes no sense. There are cameras, and you can go outside.
Leaked docs show Google and Amazon created routes, known as "winking mechanisms," to bypass their legal obligations in order to sell their cloud services to Israel's military for use in its many war crimes.
https://www.972mag.com/project-nimbus-contract-google-amazon-israel/
