US Politics on Yik Yak | If it was possible to “pull the plug” on all artificial intelligence worldwide and prevent it from being created ever again, would you do it?

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If it was possible to “pull the plug” on all artificial intelligence worldwide and prevent it from being created ever again, would you do it?

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Yes

40 votes

Anonymous 6w

hear me out. AI can be an amazing useful TOOL. i’m a big fan of markiplier (lolz) and he had a stream and talked about how AI is currently set up is inefficient (what we all know), but he also knows someone (and is funding them) to research how to create a better AI that doesn’t have as big of an environmental impact and is able to know where it’s getting information and blah blah blah. I think he has a really good point. Companies are just buying data and centers not knowing how it works

Anonymous 6w

AI isnt completely bad. It definitely needs to be regulated but it can be a good tool.

Anonymous 6w

What’s the definition of “artificial intelligence”?

Anonymous

#2 6w

if we invested research and funding to make it more efficient (I fully believe this is possible) then environmental impacts would decrease. advocating for regulations against generative art and stealing art. there’s so many things and ways we can make AI a great TOOL for certain things, but no one is doing that.

Anonymous

#2 6w

It’s 100% possible but there isn’t enough incentive to do so yet. Either the cost of computing power gets to an absurd amount that no one is willing to pay for as though money grows on trees, or we heavily incentivize using renewable energy/penalize using fossil fuels

Anonymous

#1 6w

Microsoft is already working to restart part of 3 mile island for this purpose

Anonymous

#1 6w

to use renewable energy to power it? that’s amazing tbh. i know nuclear is scary to people, but it is safe. if this is successful then other companies might follow suit. i do feel as if the general public will get to a point where their electric rates get insane and they start questioning/realizing it is data centers and demand change. when that will happen idk, but it definitely will. rates already increased an insane amount

Anonymous

#2 6w

Yeah, although I guess nuclear isn’t renewable so I should have said “clean”. Google “constellation three mile island” for more info

Anonymous

#2 6w

I know in Northern Virginia (has a lot of data centers) it’s already becoming a problem. They might start creating separate rates for data centers and other people who consume large amounts of electricity because making residents foot the bill for a constantly expanding power grid isn’t really fair. They’ve had to import electricity from nearby grids as well. I think a while ago there was a voltage blip (probably not a huge issue for anything except sensitive electronics) and all the…

Anonymous

#1 6w

Data centers switched to backup generators. The drop in demand was so sudden and significant that the entire grid nearly collapsed, which would have caused an outage for all customers

Anonymous

#1 6w

https://abigailspanberger.com/richmond-times-dispatch-spanberger-wants-data-centers-to-pay-their-own-way-for-power/ This has some info on what the Dem candidate for VA governor plans to do. However, the assembly has a slim Dem majority and has failed to pass much meaningful legislation around data centers and their expansion, electricity rates, etc