AI 2040: Plan A

Re:AI 2040: Plan A by tehjoker on Friday July 10, 2026 @07:04PM (#48866455)

This is a just so story. The main issue today is the lack of democracy in the country and the use of technology to surveil and govern a restive population as the government has less and less legitimacy. The narrative you are telling is the heroic tale of computing and the internet c. 1990-2010.

Yasha Levine wrote about how this narrative was preceded by a forgotten one where MIT students protested because the computers were going to be linked to government databases and share data on anti-Vietnam war activists. Despite protestations, activists were correct and this happened, and now it happens at huge scale.

http://yashalevine.com/surveillance-valley

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Re:AI 2040: Plan A by mikestorrent on Friday July 10, 2026 @07:53PM (#48866871)

Yes, and RMS was correct in his Right to Read and so many other things - we're seeing the slow death of the never-enshrined-in-law right to compute. Luckily open-source is big enough to slow this down; we should all be pretty amazed and appreciative that there even are open-weights models at all, out there, because it is a profoundly democratizing thing.

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Re:AI 2040: Plan A by jbxntuehineoh on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:39PM (#48868126)

> appreciative that there even are open-weights models at all

thank, mr 习

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Re:AI 2040: Plan A by fwipsy on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:58PM (#48867810)

I don't think parent commenter means tech in the modern sense. Seems like they're describing a transition to democracy which started centuries ago, not decades.

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