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I fuckin love scienceView quoted post on X
"Alyn Smith proves himself to be dangerously out of touch with public opinion, and on the side not just of elites but of the world’s super-rich – a bunch of anti-democratic billionaires who want to become the planet’s new aristocracy.
"Like the super-rich, Smith seems uneasy with dissent. He called critics of AI 'problematic'. Are those voices problematic because they disagree with Smith? Because they challenge the billionaires he’s so assiduously helping in Scotland?
"The issue with AI that we need to be concerned about isn’t that it will rise up like some robot god and kill us all, but that it will destroy millions of jobs and steal dignity from millions of people; that it will enrich the already rich and impoverish the rest of us; that it will be used to further undermine democracies already brutalised by technology; and that it will take the best of humanity – art, literature and music – and reduce it to trash.
"Politicians like Smith should be demanding a complete rebalancing of AI. Rather than these slop-machines which poison culture and politics, the technology should be focused entirely on improving medicine and science."
Shame on them: the SNP have become craven bootlickers of American tech oligarchs || Neil Mackay 👇
𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴View quoted post on X
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting speaking to the media during a visit to BAE systems in Scotstoun, Glasgow.View quoted post on X
Strathclyde UCU AGM
28th October
Lunchtime-ish
Modest Buffet provided
Fancy dress encouraged, but not mandatory.
More details to follow.View quoted post on X
