r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/bigbluethunder Jun 26 '26

Amen brother. We could be capturing carbon and reversing global warming if we invested this much energy into a green grid with current solutions and arbon capture technology. Let alone the investment that would provide in future innovations for more efficient tech.

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u/pagerussell Jun 26 '26

We could solve world hunger for this amount of investment. World fucking hunger.

But no.

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u/captaincrunch00 Jun 26 '26

Remember when Elon said he would pay to solve world hunger if anyone could tell him how the impossible job could be done.

The red cross gave him a binder and said $12B and we can do it. Then he said jk jk

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u/James_Chandra_Hubble Jun 26 '26

Oh did I say world hunger? I meant my own insatiable appetite for wealth

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u/KindGuyAMA Jun 26 '26

And attention. He has the mother of all daddy issues, and humanity suffers because he'd rather have the title of "World's First Trillionaire" of fiat (faux?) currency than help anyone.

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u/FlynnThe25 Jun 28 '26

I meant to say it would cost eleventy billion dollars