We've had an extremely light discussion around AI with artists complaining realising they too can be automated, we had the concept of a literal baby making facility, I'm assuming genetic rewriting for immortality is next week...
But getting away from the leftist takes on these subjects and the meming on facing a skynet/matrix future, what are the real opinions you have on this kind of tech?
Personally, with AI it's a Pandora's box, if we CAN create sentient artificial life, best hope is not to do it but if a dumbass does we imbrace and integrate that being, as starting conflict will probably be the reason we die.
As for artificial wombs, having the tech is needed but not in this commercial sense that video presentation gave, more as a 'last resort, literally required to save humanity' sense.
These are the two ones mentioned this week alone but any other tech you put on the 'forbidden' side or your takes on the ones disscussed.
I'm not concerned about AI encroaching on art, in particular. Our mainstream culture has been Beaudrillardian simulacra for a long time now. It's decayed into near universal derivative, homogeneous sludge so badly that I don't know if I would notice the NPC meatbags who create it now being replaced by actual NPCs.
AI in general, though, could lead to absolutely dystopian outcomes. I'm not going to sugarcoat. The "boot stomping on a human face forever" is a real possibility due to AI's ability to enhance a surveillance state to near omnipotent status. That said, I don't think it will happen. AI is still software. It has to run on computers and, to achieve prolific results, connect to networks. These things require materials and infrastructure. I expect the surveillance state to reach an apex in the not-so-distant future and then start to get eaten by the same advanced stages of neoliberal decay that are rotting out other infrastructure.
Artificial wombs sound like a disaster in the making. Babies grown in a Moderna lab or whatever isn't going to go anywhere good. I see that leading to the worst dead-egged cunts using them to "defeat" the biological clock. I don't know why manoshpere/MGTOW type of people think artificial wombs will somehow liberate men. Women will benefit more from them. I also expect the class of people with the most access to them to lead to perverts using them to grow child sex slaves and things like that.