And for those worried about the government watching you, how many of you dont have a cellphone? The ships done sailed on that one and i dont like it either. Sure AI will make the surveillance more efficient as it will everything else. Got to take the good with the bad.

Have you done any reading, Danny, on AI and the military? On topics such as surveillance or autonomous weapons?

There's already enough BAD
Do we really need more?

I would like to know more about them, do they use a lot of electricity? Use a lot of fresh water or any water? Are they noisy? Do they only create jobs during construction, then just a few? Why not put them away from populated areas? The ones I am familiar with are Hermantown and Pine Island MN where the want to build them.

Many say AI will allow all people to never have to work again and allow the govt to use all the profits to give everyone a universal basic income.
That is the ultimate goal.

For me thats like says we can do everything with out computers or any other modern technological advancement. Sure we can and we did but we were a whole less effective and efficient. Which ultimately slows down our economical growth which hurts us greatly.

As a whole its easy to be against change, especially when you arent informed and ive been there before.

For those against businesses making money im guessing its mostly a jealousy, victim mentality thing and id suggest you jump on board with them and make money alongside them and then give all your profits away to other victims since its a bad thing. Ive been learning about AI and the economy the last 3 months or so and have to admit i have and still are a bit ignorant about it all but my eyes have been opened up to the importance of economic growth. Is all the policies of our government that effect that perfect? No but ill tell you if we stop as a nation trying to be the strongest nation economically it wont be too many generations and we will be a second or third world country. Two most important things for a country to be powerful are its economy and it military. Study on it some so your not ignorant like me. And if you dont like AI dont use it and go get a library card.

Well said Seth !! You sound like Jamie Dimon.

Without increased productivity we will not continue to have the strongest economy on the planet.............and that will mean we will not have the strongest military on the planet. It is simple to discern the outcome of that situation.

AI is critical to achieve increased productivity on an ongoing basis.

That's funny stuff.

wetdog, you seem resentful, having to pay taxes. If I may ask, how much do you pay? You must be in a very high bracket to be worried about an increase in taxes due to security costs for a few data centers that the Government needs to protect.
First off, I sure would hope the Government would protect them. Chances are that they NEED THEM.
Second off, in the big scheme of things, the cost of protecting Government data centers is likely smaller than a tiny rounding error, as in so tiny you wouldn't notice the maybe .00001 cents to your personal income tax, so I wouldn't lose too much sleep on that.