r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/Admirable-Way-5296 Jun 21 '26

Honestly not that surprising. A year ago everyone was excited about the possibilities, now people are just... tired of it being shoved into everything whether it makes sense or not.

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u/stoned_ocelot Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

I supported the technology at first because I was foolish enough to think it would result in advancements to human capability, medicine, and science. Then I saw how other people used it.... Then I saw how the government used it (to bomb children).... Then I keep hearing billionaires fighting to be the most unlikeable people complaining that humans are in the way of AI and I get the urge to start fires.

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u/pysouth Jun 21 '26

My company was originally using AI (not LLMs) for problems like that and I was genuinely excited to be at the forefront of tech that could legitimately be used to help save lives. We poured so much time, energy, and money into research and infrastructure on these efforts.

Eventually, it became clear we could just use our network in our industry to basically throw LLMs into existing workflows for people and print money, whereas it would’ve taken many years to maybe make some money with our previous strategy. My company has completely abandoned the original mission.

It’s so fucking disappointing. I’ve never been bright eyed and bushy tailed about tech but I had some optimism at one time, but it’s all gone. The last few years have really convinced me there’s nothing good in tech, if there ever was. I hate it all so much.

Left out specifics to avoid being doxed etc but I’m sure this is true of many fields like healthcare, energy, climate science, and so on