The wheels are coming off the bus. The “Great AI Con” is about to go down in history as the biggest scam ever. Corporate executives worldwide followed the pied pipers (those that “offer strong but delusive enticement”) like Sam Altman into a multi-trillion-dollar black hole, only to find that they should have done ROI (Return on Investment) studies before spending billions more.
It was cheap at first, subsidized to the hilt. Now, AI companies are raising their rates as they near IPOs. It will come down to this: token usage will eat into budgets for paying humans; ergo, humans will go. It is just a matter of money, not productivity or efficiency. Once a company gets entangled with AI, it’s virtually impossible to untangle it.
Since July 2018, when I published Are Elite Technocrats Planning To Escape Earth And Head For Space?, we have witnessed the space cult emerging in earnest. These are ulterior motives, sprinkled with an earthly takeover, to catapult themselves into space. This article makes the understatement: “It would be a mistake to understand these weird worldviews as an ultimately harmless take by techies who grew up on a diet of dystopian science fiction.”