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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

396 points · 457 comments · nmeagent

surfmike · 1790217985 · focus · HN ↗
When the CEOs of these companies are saying that we will risk extinction and jobs will be decimated, why do you even need a "foreign agent"?
1. JumpCrisscross · 1790221908 · focus · HN ↗
  Because nobody in charge is sane and sober.
  1. mlinhares · 1790226274 · focus · HN ↗
    In this very specific case I don’t think this is what is happening. Data center investment is the only thing keeping GDP positive, the moment this stops the real situation of the economy will become visible to everyone and they don’t want that.
    dv_dt · 1790234575 · focus · HN ↗
    That's the ridiculous part, because there is a huge range of positive, profit generating areas to invest in, and it's a tulip madness of concentrated and narcissistic wealth does things like pour trillions in to AI, but an insufficient amount of money into an electrical generation and grid infrastructure and housing. We basically have a centrally mismanaged economy under a banner of "capitalism" as the magical mythology of the era.

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