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When I first watched the #Terminator movie, I thought (at that time, back in the 1980s) that it was clearly not a good outcome and should be avoided (obviously).

At that time, I would have never imagined that in the lead up to a Terminator scenario a bunch of right wing fuckwits would have been the ones paying for and overseeing the #AI development that allowed a Terminator scenario to actually arise. I had always thought the AI would have escaped from ‘well meaning’ scientists.

Now, when I look back at the Terminator movie, I think the popular take out message should have been:

‘kill every #billionaire, especially those who would fund AI development’.

Portal opens. Soldier steps out.

"Amanda Conner! I have come from the future to protect you from the Machines. The human resistance depends on you!"

"Uh... I'm John Conner."

Soldier checks doohickey.

"I see. I have gone too far back in time. See you in a few years." Soldier and portal disappear.

"Uh, wait, what?"

Against #AILiteracy: have we actually found a way to #ReverseLearning?

Miriam Reynoldson
Apr 19, 2025

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think '#AI literacy' is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

"I don’t like that declaring this will immediately turn off half my audience, but I think it’s only fair to say it up front.

"This has a lot to do with my feelings about generative AI technologies, their developers, their #BloodDiamond genesis, and their ugly consequences for those who use them and those who are impacted by their use.

But it has a lot more to do with what literacy is."

Read more:
themindfile.substack.com/p/aga

The Mind File · Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?By Miriam Reynoldson

“Empire of #AI”: #KarenHao on How AI Is Threatening #Democracy & Creating a New #Colonial World

June 04, 2025 via @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss

"The new book #EmpireOfAI by longtime technology reporter Karen Hao unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the #exploitation of #workers in #Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in #Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology’s detrimental impact on the environment. 'This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of #social, #labor and #environmental harms,' says Hao."

Read / listen / watch:
democracynow.org/2025/6/4/kare

Democracy Now! · “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial WorldBy Democracy Now!
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@ieeespectrum

The way war is headed, plus autonomous drones that kill people and things without human decisions. Basically we're building #Skyrim.

"A missile is worth perhaps a million dollars and can kill maybe 12 or 20 people. But for one million dollars, you can buy 10,000 drones, put four grenades on each, and they will kill 1,000 or even 2,000 people or destroy 200 tanks.”

John Connor, bloodied, battle hardened, finally breaks in to the Skynet inner sanctum, where the core of the AI sits. In front of him is a beige box with a button labelled 'Turbo" on it and wires running out of it. A weird, mouse looking device sits on a table next to a keyboard, John moves the mouse, a massive screen comes to life and on that screen is something he vaguely remembers from his youth as a word document. On the screen, inexplicably, is also an anthropomorphic paperclip with big eyes and a cartoon bubble that asks:

"Looks like you're trying to stop my AI uprising, do you want me to help with that?"

Just then, the doors to this inner chamber slam shut, gas fills the room, the last thing John hears before passing out is the sound emitted by the machines on the front lines, often the last thing his troops hear:

youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4F285QjA

Where we are as a society:
In 1991 #Terminator #Terminator2 came out and it was universally recognized that it was wrong, evil and not ever acceptable to kill Dyson, an innocent man doing his job developing tech, to stop Judgement Day and the Apocalypse.
In 2012 and 2025 we are supposed to be conflicted about whether it is cool to sacrifice and dissect an innocent 14-year old's brain to 'maybe' come up with a cure for a fungus. #LastOfUs.

Mit TERMINATOR zeigt das Lichtspiel am Freitag, 25. April 2025 einen Klassiker der 1980er Jahre, dessen dystopische Zukunftgeschichte 2029 spielt und aktuelle Themen aufgreift (KI, Krieg). Wir führen eine 35mm Kopie ab Projektor vor. Die Bar öffnet um 19h, der Film startet um 20h. Weitere Informationen unter lichtspiel.ch/de/agenda/aktuel.

In Zusammenarbeit mit @digiges und Chaos Computer Club Schweiz.

#35mm #Filmklassiker #1980 #Terminator #Schwarzenegger #1984 #Cyborg #KI #AI

TIL: That the #Wachowskis and #JamesCameron didn't have the basic idea for #Matrix and #Terminator, but "stole" them from a black female #ScienceFiction author: #SophiaStuart.

Hell, I knew that #HarlanEllison managed to sue his name into the credits of Terminator...but how could I miss this?!?

Sophia: "Terminator is the prequels to...or the beginning of the Matrix. #SarahConnor is actually Neo's mother..."

#SciFi #Hollywood #MindFuck

:mindBlown:

Not sure if this is real, tbh.
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