Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/opinion/artificial-intell...

data centers will have to be fortified like prisons, so that ordinary citizens don’t bulldoze them

This is an insanely cynical take. Replace workers with AI but commit some money to retrain them for some theoretical jobs which seemingly aren’t able to be replaced by AI. Don’t worry about if they ever get jobs just give Sal Khan more money to retrain people and your conscious will be clean.

Here's another take.

https://www.noemamag.com/the-politics-of-superintelligence/

It's mostly about AGI predictions, but it made the point that talking about "inevitability" of AI apocalypses ultimately moves resources to AI companies.

That said, I'm all in favor of tech companies offering useful retraining to the masses. (It's just that I've always seen predictions that AI will also create jobs, so I'm not ready to concede that mass displacements are inevitable...)

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