The world's tech billionaires are starting to moderate their rhetoric on AI automation, but that doesn't mean it's all in good faith.

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As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.

  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    This is exactly what they want. If no one pays taxes and we all get that back into our paychecks, the price of goods goes up by the same amount or more. The taxes are still paid, they just go straight to the shareholders instead of through the government. These billionaires don’t pay their fair share now but they would love to pay nothing at all. 30% inflation doesn’t affect them but it does make them richer. This is why they’re floating the idea of zero income tax.