The Great AI Delusion

But in any case, stop me if you watched this movie before.

You know, in the 1960s, we were all going to die because of overpopulation.

So we needed to have forced abortion in China, one child per couple policy.

We were told that we had to take extreme steps because overpopulation would starve people the world.

Of course, nothing close to that happened.

Then we got the 1970s with the impending ice age as trumpeted on the cover of America's most famous news magazines, Time, Newsweek, the coming ice age.

And basically, just like in the 60s, we were all going to die because of overpopulation.

In the 70s, we were all going to die because of the ice age.

Then you take us to the 1990s and it's Y2K mania.

If we don't.

set up a massive government bureaucracy to attack the certainty that the world's going to be turned upside down once 1999 turned to 2000.

And of course, that was a complete bust.

Really, almost nothing happened.

And then, of course, the granddaddy of them all was climate change, which took the disgraced ice age theory and the disgraced global warming theory, joined them together, added in any and all extreme weather events, rolled it into climate change, and led to trillions of dollars being invested basically flushed down a rat hole trying to fight climate change.

And you notice, Mark, how they don't even talk about climate change anymore.

They quietly drop that discussion.

So now the latest thing that's going to kill us all is H.I. as you like to call it, or AI, as the rest of the world calls it.

Now, that's going to kill us.

And you notice how all these doomsayers on the left and that CEO of Anthropic was warning us that it could kill us.

Oh, but they don't even tell us how.

Yeah.

You know, it can take over your life.

It can take over your brain.

It can take over.

They don't even describe it.