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NickB79

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9. If AI starts wiping out tens of millions of jobs

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2026, 08:52 PM

18 hrs ago

I can easily foresee anti-tech terrorist groups blowing up data centers and shooting out transformers that supply them power.

Desperate, angry people will do extreme things.

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US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows [View all] highplainsdem 22 hrs ago OP

I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Overlords (/eyeroll) Tim S 21 hrs ago #1

Luddites of the world unite! pecosbob 21 hrs ago #2

It's not about just the resistance to AI "adoption." It's about NO water AND skyrocketing electricity bills. ancianita 21 hrs ago #3

Exactly. highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #10

Fucking hell. The "anti-tech" (which they are actually using to describe anyone who specifically is anti-AI) people Karasu 20 hrs ago #4

Those opposing generative AI and data centers are a large group, even though they don't have the highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #11

Time to get the Monkeywrench Gang back together... EarthFirst 20 hrs ago #5

... highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #12

Anti-tech? Plenty of techies are against AI IronLionZion 19 hrs ago #6

Yes. So are science fiction writers like John Scalzi, and I think that particularly upsets the AI bros highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #13

It's not anti-tech, it's anti-exploitation. They use new technology for new forms of exploitation, but ... eppur_se_muova 18 hrs ago #7

True. highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #14

Such were the luddites GenThePerservering 14 hrs ago #15

There isn't any need to have thousands of AI data centers all over the country. patphil 18 hrs ago #8

If AI starts wiping out tens of millions of jobs NickB79 18 hrs ago #9