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Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights

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3mo ago

Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights

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“Saudi Arabia has big _____ ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights.”
Fill in the blank with whatever you want: Oil, skyscrapers, a big fuck off line city in the desert, AI, a space program
- “Saudi Arabia has big _____ ambitions. They ~~could~~ come at the cost of human rights.”
- Aladeen
- Big tiddy goth gf?
- thier sole industry, oil is pretty much going to dry up, thats why they are buying up as many thing as possible to stave off the inevetible.
- Bingo
- This is KSA we’re talking about here. Human rights violations are always part of the deal. You could say it’s the currency they trade in.
AI always comes at the cost of human rights with how we are handling it. Maybe it could have been a niche useful thing, or a helpful tool. But no, the chatbots are become unemployment, destroyer of jobs.
- Also the people who do the tagging and feedback for training tend to be underpaid third-world workers.
What human rights? 😅
One of the biggest issues running AI is keeping those huge data centers cool.
So let's build one in a desert
- It's not a bad idea if you think about it. During the day you have lots of light and it's cold there at night.
Saudi Arabia trying to diversify away from oil, but is also evil. News at 11:00.
- Oil is thier sole economy, them buying up properties, farms and sports team wont save them in the end.
could? saudia arabia? any organization hoping to make a buck in this system, at a large enough scale, WILL cost human rights. this is how the system is designed.
I think it's pretty safe to say that when your country is run by a murderous tyrant who has his own mother arrested on [presumably] fabricated corruption charges, human rights are of little concern.
"Could" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here
hopefully when the ai bubble breaks it takes saudi arabia with them
Saudi Arabia is humanities dumbest prank.
The problem when you have money pouring out of your orifices is you don't really care all that much about costs.
Ah but then they can't buy them, since they already spent their human rights on lavish royal lifestyles.
Wow okay.

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