Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by jms703 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:03PM (#48574219)

> tech companies have proved to be some of the most hostile actors in most American's lives

This. Many of us are cogs in these machines doing the harm...to ourselves and others around us.

The thing is, these companies can't exist without employees. But employees need the companies for money to pay the other companies.

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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by sylos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:38PM (#48574748)

We are rapidly reaching a point where companies will exist without human employees, there'll just be the owners and an ai workforce.

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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by autoexec on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:45PM (#48574851)

Who is going to buy what they're selling? More AI?

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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by everdrive on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:54PM (#48575007)

According to the NVIDIA CEO, yes. He's quite ravenous at the possibility that before he only had humans as customers, but now he is potentially opening up a new customer base where agents are customers.

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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by pixl97 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:42PM (#48576582)

Why do economies need people? With a fractional reserve monetary system you can keep pumping more money in a system as the system creates more resources, so the game never has to stop. Just end up with an AI paving the Earth in solar panels buying minerals from another AI harvesting every metal in the crust of the Earth creating quadrillions of dollars in GDP.

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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by pixl97 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:31PM (#48576431)

We call this system Moloch.

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