Back to the past: Our AI-Weimar future

Robo-cars aren’t science fiction anymore.


A friend visited San Francisco and got shuttled around town by one.

I’d heard autonomous vehicles had stalled (pun intended), but apparently they’re already here — gliding through real city streets.

And with them will come robo-trucks, robo-buses, robo-trains, and Johnny Cabs.

In the United States alone, 3.55 million people work in trucking. That’s just one sector in AI’s crosshairs. If these technologies roll out fast (like Australian rabbits), we’re in trouble. Add in artists, coders, lawyers, paralegals, administrators... heck, white colllar workers of all stripes, it adds up fast.

If one person loses their job, that’s their problem.


But if 30 million people lose their jobs, in short order?

That’s a Weimar Germany level problem, and we all know where that went.

Great Depression level desperation leads to populism, demagoguery, extremism, and political instability.

It only ends well for The History Channel.

Silicon Valley executives, with their ‘move fast and break things’ agenda, insist AI is not only inevitable but may also exterminate all humanity, while simultaneously building luxury bunkers for themselves in places like Patagonia, Hawaii and New Zealand.

Complete with blast resistant doors and self-contained air filtration systems.

Sam Altman even carries a ‘go bag’ filled with antibiotics, gas masks, and firearms.

Because AI + 3D bio printers makes engineered superviruses inevitable, too.

But hey, they’ll make a lot of money for shareholders before The Event happens, right?

Freedom is no longer compatible with democracy, and as such we peons don’t get a say.

It’s already decided.

Because money.

Of course, the grandiose 'warnings' by AI execs are, bottom line, self-serving advertisements.

Time will tell what's real and what's The Matrix.

What's a Saturday without a little doom-mongering?