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> if states can pass restrictive laws on AI in absence of a correspondingly negative motivating event... If you mean besides the extensive harm to air quality,
by autoexec 7mo ago
> if states can pass restrictive laws on AI in absence of a correspondingly negative motivating event...
If you mean besides the extensive harm to air quality, the large land fingerprint of data centers, the massive strain on water resources and treatment facilities, the insane electricity demands resulting in skyrocketing prices pushed onto everyone else, the deafening noise pollution, and what they've done to the price of RAM, then sure. And that's just the data centers!
The usage of AI itself has resulted in all kinds of harm and even actual deaths. AI has wrongfully denied people healthcare coverage they were entitled to preventing or delaying needed surgeries and treatments. There's a growing list of LLM related suicides (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots). The use of AI in parole systems has kept people locked behind bars when they shouldn't have been due to biases in the bots making decisions. AI used for self-driving driving cars have killed pedestrians and other drivers. There are thousands of AI generated harms tracked here: https://airisk.mit.edu/ai-incident-tracker https://airisk.mit.edu/ai-incident-tracker
- tt24 7mo ago[flagged]
- cowboylowrez 7mo agoI knew this would happen, safety is now considered "woke" haha
- tt24 7mo agoNot sure what you mean by “woke” but prioritizing safety at the expense of everything else is poisonous
- FatherOfCurses 7mo agoSo is prioritizing corporate profiteering.
- tt24 7mo agoDisagree
- cowboylowrez 7mo agoI think there's places to deprioritise safety, like the US military for instance, we gripe too much when soldiers die, we should instead just put right there in their employment contract or draft notice, "side effects of troop activation may include injury or death". Also jets. I think jet safety is way overrated, they are so much safer than driving statistically that I think there's plenty of room to work with here, def some room for some serious corner cutting with air travel.
- FatherOfCurses 7mo agoDid you do the security setup for Jurassic Park?
- terminalshort 7mo ago[flagged]
- autoexec 7mo agoYeah, I'm going to believe the many many documented cases of these problems in VA alone over your non-example https://www.businessinsider.com/living-next-to-data-centers-terrible-wont-leave-dream-home-2025-10?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/living-next-to-data-centers-... https://www.businessinsider.com/data-centers-northern-virginia-noise-air-pollution-cost-2025-5?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/data-centers-northern-virgin... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opinion/data-centers-ai-amazon-google-microsoft.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opinion/data-centers-ai-a... https://virginiamercury.com/2026/02/19/legislature-considers-passing-cost-of-distribution-transmission-lines-to-data-centers-instead-of-residents/ https://virginiamercury.com/2026/02/19/legislature-considers... https://www.wdbj7.com/2026/02/04/virginia-lawmakers-look-address-data-center-water-use/ https://www.wdbj7.com/2026/02/04/virginia-lawmakers-look-add... https://news.vcu.edu/article/northern-virginia-data-center-air-pollution-rivals-power-plant-emissions https://news.vcu.edu/article/northern-virginia-data-center-a...
- terminalshort 7mo ago[flagged]