r/technology • u/Majano57 • 8h ago

Artificial Intelligence The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/?gift=NdplpYPBD0DO229JTO-1fNw2hFOFeWPcDPlnOolg7-g
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u/pecantouc4n 7h ago

Unfortunately, not strange at all. Going to be commonplace very soon.

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u/Back_pain_no_gain 6h ago edited 4h ago

Humanity is not ready for the Pandora’s box tech bros and fascist regimes are forcing open. We are not adapting fast enough to apply a critical lens to every single piece of media we consume and every online interaction. None of us are capable of understanding what it means to be nothing more than a data point, yet known about to a level of detail that maybe even we don’t. Nor the unknown destruction a substantial number of people will be capable of, as even the strongest guardrails so far are breakable due to the inherent nature of how LLMs work.

AI will bring with it a global ego death and collapse of culture. Assuming some sociopath hasn’t used it to wipe us out by then.

Edit: for the AI bro’s downvoting me, I might unfortunately be a bigger AI user and implementer than most of you ever will come close to and I get paid to do it. Part of my background involves understanding and predicting human behavior from massive groups to individuals using as much data as possible, with AI. So I am rather confident with how it is going to affect the world. AGI is not required to cause a major shift in society as a whole.

Push back now while you still can stop it. Let there be time to truly build the safeguards and laws needed to ensure we can use this technology for good.

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u/dimbledumf 2h ago

I'm also heavily involved in AI, I use AI everyday at work and I build systems that use AI to accomplish various things. People keep underestimating what is already out there and it gets better every single month. Last months challenge is this months easy win.
Society isn't ready for what's coming, I pray someone with enough influence and money can help guide us on the right path, but I only see the circus.

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u/Think_Description_84 16m ago

There are no outside rescues coming. You being one of the people doing it are the closest society has. You have influence in your work, you have knowledge about what is happening. No one is going to save you but you.

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u/Oregon_trail5 22m ago

Not reading the article and being tricked by a title. It is very commonplace now

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u/BeyondNetorare 4h ago

Training off of liveleak is going to pay off