The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This issue features a painting of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
In a recent interview with Time Magazine, Altman said he knows most people hate the technology that he and his fellow tech plutocrats are imposing upon our civilization.
“Clearly, people hate data centers — right now, at least. People are pretty negative on AI,” Altman said.
Indeed, a recent survey conducted by CNBC‘s Generation Labs found that the public is very negative on AI in general and on its CEOs in particular.
CNBC reports:
“A growing part of the economy is artificial intelligence. Almost half of respondents, 45%, said they believe AI will have a negative impact on their careers, while 10% believe it will help them with their careers. An additional 40% said they believe ‘the federal government’ must set rules for AI, while 36% said they believe ‘an independent expert body’ should set the rules of the game. Just 8% said they think AI ‘shouldn’t be regulated.’ A majority, 60%, believe data center construction ‘must be slowed,’ while 15% favor ‘speeding it up.’
“When given the names of nine key people in the AI industry and asked whether they trust each leader to act responsibly on AI, in each case a majority of respondents said they don’t. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella scored the best, with 65% reporting they don’t trust him. Palantir CEO Alex Karp scored the worst: 81% said they don’t trust him. About 75% of respondents said they don’t trust Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and about the same percentage said they don’t trust Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk all scored about the same, each with about 70% of respondents saying they don’t trust them, and 79% said they don’t trust Palantir Chairman Peter Thiel.”
They know we hate them and what they’re doing to us as a society. And yet they’re doing it anyway. They’re going to keep pushing this technology on us which is stealing our jobs, plunging our society further and further into a tech surveillance dystopia patrolled by militarized drones and police robots, and turning everyone into stupid, artless emotional infants who can’t do anything for ourselves. Whether we like it or not.
These freaks gotta go.
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CONTENTS
Let’s Stay Human … 5
Today In Dystopia: ICE Robots And Pentagon Puppets … 7
Israeli Officials Promote Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories About Israel … 11
You’re A Terrorist If You Resist Genocide Or Mass Surveillance, And Other Notes … 13
All It Takes Is One Crack In The Lie We’ve Been Sold … 15
Don’t Let The Values Of This Dystopian Society Shape How You Live Your Life … 17
It’s Obnoxious For Westerners To Criticize The Targets Of The Western Empire … 19
Our Entire Civilization Is Run By Oligarchs And Empire Managers — And Other Notes … 21
“What Radicalized You?” … 24
Today In Dystopia: Burning Books For Israel, Burning Books For AI … 25
Today In Dystopia: “We Have Cameras Everywhere In That Town” … 29
Let Your Love For This World Fill You With Joy And Compel You To Action … 31
We All Know This Civilization Is Doomed, But They Keep Telling Us Everything’s Normal … 33
Capitalism Trains Us To Blame Each Other For Systemic Abuses … 35
Today In Dystopia: Flock Camera Tyranny And Sam Altman Surveillance … 37
If We Could See Everything, It Would Radicalize Us All Instantly … 41
Joe Biden Should Be Dying Of Cancer In The Hague … 43
There Is Beauty Everywhere. Even In Dystopia. Even In Armageddon. … 45
ALL Mainstream Western Institutions View Palestinian Lives As Worthless … 47
“I’m Not Political” Just Means “I Support The Status Quo” … 49
Today In Dystopia: eBay CIA Gangstalkers, Shredding Rare Books To Train AI … 51
Trump Inherited Peace Deals But Torched Them For More War, And Other Notes … 55
How To Be An Empire Propagandist … 57
Have I Mentioned It’s Great That Lindsey Graham Is Dead? … 58
We’re Being Plunged Into Dystopia When We Could Be Living In Paradise … 59
‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ Delivers A Penetrating Insight Into The Heart Of Our Dystopia … 60
De-Normalize Israel … 61
Not Even Israelis Are Willing To Die For Israel … 62
Trump Is NOT A Reluctant War President … 65
Revolutionary Optimism Takes Practice … 67
Where The Real Romance Begins … 69
Trump Killed Those US Troops In Jordan … 71
Liberals Have Relaxed About Trump Because They Trust Him To Keep The Wars Going … 72
They’re Launching A New COINTELPRO For The 21st Century … 73
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"They know we hate them and what they’re doing to us as a society. And yet they’re doing it anyway." They don't care what we think or what they do to us as a society. They stand to make a lot of money. That is all they really care about.
A capitalist with AI could lay off half his workers and make the same profits with the increased productivity and without the time wasted doing things AI can do 100 times faster (and usually better. Big problem unemployment.
A workers coops, knowing it would lose out if it did not become more productive in a world where AI is transforming productivity day by day, would use AI and rather than laying off half the workers, it would reduce the work week from 40 hrs to 20 with the same pay
This is what Marx only dreamed of with his vison of a world where instead of slaving away 40 hrs a day, the innovations of capitalism appropriated by the workers, would lead to a world in which "The German Ideology (1845):)
“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity … society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.” HE is speaking of a world in which one has large amounts of free time and does not need to become a cog in the wheel but can enjoy many passions. I regret, as a vegan, that he focused so much on fishing and hunting and animal husbandry, but that is what came to mind.