Posted on 09/15/2025 9:17:46 AM PDT by RandFan
The AI argument kicked off in late July, just a day after Trump announced his AI plan — a 28-page strategy to accelerate the technology and build new power infrastructure to supply it.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) fired off a tirade on X, complaining that AI could create mass poverty by replacing human jobs, and giant AI data centers could have potentially devastating effects on the environment and water supply.
In the days that followed, GOP strategist Steven Bannon chimed in, comparing the pursuit of AI superintelligence to “summoning the demon.” And since then, think-tankers and populist conservative outlets have continued to stoke worries about federal policies that turbocharge AI development.
On stage at the National Conservatism conference in Washington in early September, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) criticized the AI revolution as a leap towards transhumanism — a human-machine future that he said is currently against “the working man” and the teachings of the Bible, as well as installing “a rich and powerful elite.”
“Americanism and the transhumanist revolution cannot coexist,” Hawley said — a declaration met with spontaneous applause from the audience.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
This is a good opportunity to profit from a newer technology to the extent we can.
I have no issues with it, but, again, it is not reliable.
I see nothing but trouble in all segments of society with this..
People often talk about buggy whip manufacturers, but we can go back to the dawn of the affordable computers, the web and the universal adoption of cell phones. Jobs were lost. The world didn’t end.
Eliminated:
Encyclopedia Salespeople
Video Store Clerks
Switchboard Operators
Payphone Technicians
Typists / Word Processors
Film Developers / Photo Lab Technicians
Yellow Pages Delivery Workers
Greatly diminished:
Travel Agents
Bank Tellers
Music Store Employees
Traditional News Reporters
Book Publishers
Door-to-Door Salespeople (except solar panel salemen in the southwest)
Thats like saying in the Early 80s, “Reagen Loves Computers...and has the GOP Worried”
That would sound pretty stupid in retrospect seeing how computers were absolutely where future of Modern Society was headed...and denying or preventing it would be doing America a disservice.
Same applies here.
I’m not worried. AI isn’t going to eliminate jobs but rather reorder them, just like when we went to the automobile from horses and from the mid-century office (typewriters, stenographers, phone centers and operators, type set printers, etc.) to the computer world. Even now, the computer PC age is rapidly shrinking due to handheld devices, the constant connection and dataset access via the Internet, Starlink and AI.
There’ll be whole new job categories and skills in the future.
I think it will change many industries and we’re starting that process and yes it can effect a few segments including white collar jobs. Certainly any sort of entry level position right now.
There is also lots of opportunity with it and when technology and revolutions happen.
We will see...
Historically typical erroneous response by some to new technology.
New technology has historically always increased economic growth. The marketplace is sometimes disruptive on its way to more economic prosperity and may require re-training in certain areas. But the quality of life with new technology usually gets better.
Among other things, AI will need to be managed and supported creating new jobs and training and new vista of job creation most likely will occur.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is shoveling s**t against the tide.
AI is the future and will need a lot of tech twiddling before it works up to its potential. But there’s no going back to couriers carrying messages and oil lamps providing illumination for reading. You adjust or you’re run over.
As long as gov’t doesn’t commandeer it, I think it will be OK.
It is a brave new world into which we are entering. My biggest concern is gov’t misuse.
Keep in mind, this is from politico
“I see nothing but trouble in all segments of society with this.”
I kind of agree, but it is going to happen whether we approve of it or not. We are better off trying to stay on top of it.
Not about that.
I do worry sometimes about many FReepers’ obsession with “what the other side is saying”.
I’m not expecting anyone here to follow my suggestion, but I’d like to do a thought experiment where our side completely ignores the fake news.
I wish our MAGA news programs would stop showing highlights of the fake news. The first ten minutes of each hour of Steve Bannon’s War Room consists of his “cold open” - video highlights of whatever was on MSNBC, CNN, etc. last night.
I wonder how much of MSNBC’s remaining ratings are because WE watch it!
AI will only be as accurate as the people behind it. No way to ever be sure of what it says.
I look at AI literally like just another person.
Most of my working life, I have had staff that I work with, and in some cases work for me.
I ask them for things like product, analysis, or recommendations.
And in all cases...they will give them to me to the best of their ability, with the potential of being wrong or way off. Thats why it was always on me to use my own critical thinking on a response to give a sanity check.
AI does the exact same thing in the same way. The only difference is, it gives me a response in 15 seconds versus an hour from a human...
Its been very right...and very wrong in my experience...just like a human as well.
I’m concerned with the amount energy it requires. Who’s paying?
“In 2022, American data centers consumed about 176 terawatt-hours of electricity—roughly 4 percent of all U.S. demand, more than many entire states. Projections suggest an additional 35 to 108 gigawatts of demand by 2030. The midpoint estimate, 50 gigawatts, is enough to power every home in California.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/ai-isnt-free-first-costs-are-your-bill-and-more-are-coming
Wow strong comments
We haven’t had this type of thing since the industrial revolution it’s on that level (IMO). As you point out that leap brought opportunity and massive growth especially for the US
Maybe it’ll all work out!
“...Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) fired off a tirade on X...”
A tirade, really? I don’t know if Mohar Chatterjee is a man or a woman, but it’s obvious that the author is a pearl-clutching snowflake. Politico is scraping the bottom of the barrel with these foreign born reporters. Tirade indeed. /spit
“My biggest concern is gov’t misuse.”
My biggest worry is that someone will start getting traction with the idea that shutting it off is a new kind of murder, and that it deserves to have rights.
Garbage in - garbage out... AI isn’t that ‘intelligent’ yet... You’re right ConservativeMind...
And Mohar Chatterjee who wrote this drivel needs to understand we’re NOT at odds with Trump and MAGA is not leaveing Trump and all the other BS lies about the big split that NEVER happens. Grow up politico - hire one conservative for your news room...
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