Should we be afraid of Artificial Intelligence?

59Tebo said:
I saw a story on 60 Minutes over the weekend where they had a Boston Robotics android robot at a Hyundai plant. They were "teaching" this AI robot to do menial tasks. I wondered, how long will it be before they can teach these things to build houses? Imagine what that would do to the cost of housing, and the elimination of homelessness. Perhaps some forms of AI can be beneficent...
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Who is going to buy those houses once all the jobs have been replaced by AI androids?

Matter of fact, I feel, without any hard evidence, that practical jobs like builder, electrician, plumber will be among the last jobs to be 'replaced'. More worrying for admin jobs in the near future I woulda thought.
 
I have worked construction .And in the winter Slippery in the snow and ice.
Water raining down. Slippery mud.
Back then the environment had to many uncertainties For any automation.
And when the building rises one move all the time .Not long at the same place or level
Planks with nails on the floor
No electric outlet close
Scaffolding to climb.
Open elevator shaft ,To fall into.
Planning the offloading of the ducts. on the ground closest possible
Awkward places to crawl into
Not much tools and so
Not all used to the factory floor ..was able to figure it out and be efficient .. on a construction site.
Drawings to read.
Ducts needed to cut to length dependent on place

It depends on the type of building .. Prefabrication in a factory have better chance succeed.
A robot make the parts and then assemble on site,

I Have heard about fighter jet pilots .Replacing him with automation But the saying was that there was still need for situation evaluations.
Adapt.
Not sure if true ..
But I cannot see the construction site being automated that easy.

Maybe houses as one family homes they can be identical in a block . Carpenters found it boring doing the same every day.
 
Warn your daughter's and grandaughters.

I knew this was happening but seeing how easy it is to do is frightening

https://bsky.app/profile/leftistlawyer.com/post/3mbzpqwu7ks2x
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Just as bad, (I think worse), is Musk's AI, Grok, added a button on Twitter in December 2025 that undresses people. Surprise surprise it is being used on woman and children.
Criticism was so high he has, (saw a post yesterday, looking for the link), adjusted the Grok parameters so you now have to pay to use the button to undress a posted pic of any person on Twitter.
Essentially Musk is now making money off people allowing them to create nude porn pics of children, girls, boys, or anyone for whatever mischief they want to use it for. Great if your a pedophile or want revenge on an old girlfriend.

I am starting to question Darwin's theory of evolution

https://www.firstpost.com/explainer...exualised-images-women-children-13966402.html

Found proof in link below

"Some users are now receiving automated responses saying that ‘image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers"

https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/09/elon...s-itself-ofcom-grok-undressed-women-26180856/
 
Guy said:
I'm a little afraid of AI, I'm a lot afraid of the people developing it.
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Yes Sir an how can these people exist ...Nudity No Problem Porn can even have some meaning
But how can someone develop such a thing not having heard of the problems and Shitstorm it will create.
Failing to realize the problems or Morale questions The Mafia perhaps would do it but others ?

Solution :Charge money for it. How can such people be at large.
 
Dean Baker, who’s a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a well known economist, is most widely known as the man who correctly forecast the Dot.com bubble bursting in the late 1990’s and also the impending crash of the housing market and mortgage loans in 2008.

He is now warning that he is seeing the same kind of red flags with the current frenzy for AI. Stock valuations have been soaring, much higher than current earnings should justify and it seems everyone is borrowing and investing huge amounts of money to develop and use AI in their businesses. He warns that so much money has been invested into the technology that a financial collapse could be potentially catastrophic for the economy at large.

“Other economists have identified key factors that indicate a crisis could be around the corner. A 2020 study of postwar financial crashes around the world by economists at Harvard, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Copenhagen Business School found that “crises are substantially predictable.” When credit and asset prices grow rapidly in the same sector — conditions the researchers term a “red zone” — there was a probability of about 40 percent of a financial crisis starting in the next three years, they concluded.”


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“These prophets of economic doom are worried about another collapse”
Lisa Bonos
The Washington Post


 
The Bank of England offered a similar warning late last year.


Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst​


Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
Wed 8 Oct 2025 07.14 EDT
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The Bank of England has warned there is a growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets as it raised concerns about soaring valuations of leading AI tech companies.
Policymakers said there were also threats of a “sharp repricing of US dollar assets” if the Federal Reserve lost credibility in the eyes of global investors. It comes as Donald Trump’s continues to attack the US central bank and threaten its independence.

Continued hype and optimism about the potential for AI technology has led to a rise in valuations in recent months, with companies such as OpenAI now worth $500bn (£372bn), compared with $157bn last October. Another firm, Anthropic, has almost trebled its valuation, going from $60bn in March to $170bn last month.
However, the Bank of England’s financial policy committee (FPC) warned on Wednesday: “The risk of a sharp market correction has increased.
“On a number of measures, equity market valuations appear stretched, particularly for technology companies focused on artificial intelligence. This … leaves equity markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of AI become less optimistic.”

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ns-of-growing-risk-that-ai-bubble-could-burst
 
I think there's a very real possibility that our jobs in the country could be replaced by AI in as early as 10 years. AI has already made GETTING a job very hard. As there are filter bots in place to read the resumés that are submitted for employment and kicked out of the line if they don't fit the exact frame the AI is trained to filter.

Furthermore, there are schools using grading systems to find Plagiarism and honestly written articles with sources properly cited are being flagged as plagiarism despite being original essays.

It's a problem and I think widespread public acceptance is a bad idea. I also unfortunately think that this is going to be the next "industrial revolution" in terms of permanent global change in how humanity evolves moving forward.
 
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Whether an AI generated the Shambaugh piece on its own or was prompted to do so by a human agent is very important. In the former case, it raises, uhm, troubling philosphical questions and I'm not saying more right now.

But if a person used the AI to research and re-write a piece for purposes of attacking Shambaugh then we need to be very worried that for very little effort, any person with a personal or general grudge can use AI to mount campaigns against whoever. Blurring the lines on what we can believe. The post-truth age is here.
 
John Regular said:
Wasn't sure if I should post this here or in WTF pictures, that being said, what the actual f#ck?
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Seriously... That's dumb as shit lol!

Why would anyone ever waste their time watching the whole video..? As soon as I see a video that's AI I keep moving... It's just so dumb to me.
 
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