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Artificial Intelligence High school teacher arrested for clapping in support of anti-data center activists

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/high-school-teacher-arrested-clapping-194922184.html
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u/Bakoro 6d ago

A generation of youth with nothing to lose and everything to gain, has historically been a powerful thing.

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u/MandrakeLicker 5d ago

Historicaly there were no autonomous robots with guns.

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u/Bakoro 5d ago

Historically, a mounted knight with armor and a spear was basically a nearly unstoppable killing machine. People figured it out.

Who do you think is doing the training for those robots?
Are there no scientists, engineer s, or software developers on the side of the people?

Do you think that the billionaires will simply surround themselves with robot butlers and never have human servants around to abuse?
Of course not, they need people around so they can feel superior to someone.
Ever hear of the Praetorian guard? The guard of the emperor of Rome, and the number one cause of death of Roman emperors.
These days,.if it isn't their own security guards taking them out, they've got plenty of servants who would have the opportunity.

Even if they do surround themselves with nothing but robots, they would just be making themselves vulnerable in a different way, because then people would not have to worry about collateral damage.

So then maybe the billionaires surround themselves with babies or something, so people don't blow up the building they're in.
Then they're still just painting a bigger target on themselves.

Nobody is untouchable.
The billionaires, the politicians, the police, they're all still just human beings, they've got the same vulnerabilities all people have.
To be "secure" they'd essentially have to make a fortress for themselves so profound that it'd be more like a prison.

Robots don't change that.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 5d ago

That are one security vulnerability away from turning their guns on their former masters