Post #3103604

2026-05-19 17:27 UTC

I feel that we must largely agree, because you are making similar points to me, albeit with somewhat different apparent sentiment. For example, your points illustrate that there are perfectly good examples of the previous systems having horrible, regrettable, issues, as well. I think the real meat of my concerns with this rapid and, in my opinion, reckless and completely unregulated rollout, is that when something does go spectacularly wrong with an AI product, everyone throws their hands up and shouts "NOT IT!" when its time for responsibility and culpability to get handed out. Personally, I am totally fine with this technology and really any technology so long as the responsible parties are _made_ responsible for their failures and negligence. Today, big tech is trying to claim all the accolades and money for AI, and zero of the responsibility, and are so far being allowed to do so. Frankly, it seems that they have so thoroughly captured the levers of government meant to regulate them that we will have to wait for their insurers to force them to take responsibility, since _someone_ has to hold the bag when there's lawsuits. They've got a strong lobby, too.

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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-05-19 19:39

> everyone throws their hands up and shouts “NOT IT!” when its time for responsibility and culpability to get handed out. Oh, like the financial crisis of 2008-9 - bail us out, we're too big to fail - it's not our fault that we rushed into the unregulated territory and ignored all the risk... The taxpayers are the ultimate insurance underwriters. > as the responsible parties are made responsible for their failures and negligence As such, regardless of technological involvement or not, you must be just about as sad as I am about the current trends regarding responsibility, accountability, enforcement of legal precedents, stability of our systems, etc. In that respect, I'll say the state of AI is more a symptom than a cause. > wait for their insurers to force them to take responsibility, since someone has to hold the bag when there’s lawsuits. There was a scene in Star Wars (the original: A New Hope) where "the senate will no longer be a problem, the emperor has disbanded the body..." I'm waiting for them to start talking about doing that with the courts, they talk about every other outrageous thing imaginable.

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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-05-19 21:08

> we must largely agree I think we do, except, AI is just another (big, powerful, broad reaching implications) tech, like the internet, or computers, or nuclear fission, or spaceflight (artificial satellites), or powered flight, or the steam engine, or steel making, or circumnavigation capable sailing ships, or gunpowder... None of those things switched on all at once in an instant, and AI has been creeping up on us for 60+ years. The past 2 or 3 have been a rather dramatic acceleration, fulfilling much of the promise and expectation of the past 50 years, but it's still not as great as people imagine it could be - a lot like everything else on the list above. Most people "on the cusp" of those technologies had very different visions for what they would bring to the world compared with what actually happened. Can we "shoot ourselves in the foot" with this one? Yes, but you could do the same with a rock in a bamboo pole with a little gunpowder, too.

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