MIT Technology Review AI reporting · 14h ago · 3/5
Resistance ↗
A coordinated anti-AI movement is emerging worldwide, with protests in London and the US, including a Pro-Human AI Declaration signed by an unlikely coalition of political and labor groups. Concerns span rising electricity bills from data centers, job displacement, chatbot impacts on teen mental health, military use of AI, and copyright infringement. Policy responses include new safeguards on AI companionship bots in New York and California, artist victories on copyright protections, and pledges from AI executives to fund new power plants.
Turns out not everyone wants to live in the future that AI companies are building.
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