@Scrimshaw9 @maccruiskeen Mac is correct, the fundamental premise of AI is a fascist project. The individual villains like Thiel are almost incidental, they just happen to be the venal opportunists who bought their way to the top. There is no way toward ethical AI because it operates *only* as a method for destroying human knowledge and capability. Your earlier post saying “yes AI can be taught good values” is false on three counts: 1) AI cannot actually “learn” anything, it can only regurgitate. When living beings learn, they can form original thoughts from what they learned, based on understanding. AI cannot understand and it cannot form original thoughts. 2) The way it works is inherently destructive and anti cooperative. It cannot understand collective care. Look at the evidence: they have scraped countless “good” texts, and continue to spit out evil. 3) The people in charge have made it clear that humanity is just an annoying obstacle. The idea that AI could be non-evil if the people running the corporations were not evil depends on a wild fantasy of benevolent, compassionate corporate leaders—but you literally can’t make billionaire money with that kind of ethics.