Data Center Animosity Reflects Legit Concerns AI-Mongers Don’t Care About Humanity’s Interests |
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Data Center Animosity Reflects Legit Concerns AI-Mongers Don’t Care About Humanity’s Interests
The question at the heart of the AI debate is whether the human person can survive in a world dominated by mass artificial intelligence.
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The debate over AI data centers, and the growing opposition to them in local communities, is partly a proxy for deep anxiety about artificial intelligence itself and the kind of future AI companies are trying to create.
Same goes for the college graduates who recently booed their keynote speakers for praising AI. The viral clip of University of Arizona graduates repeatedly booing Eric Schmidt, the billionaire former CEO of Google, for praising AI and urging grads to embrace an AI-dominated future might prove to be a turning point in this debate.
At the very least, it was revealing. Every time Schmidt, a man who made his fortune in disruptive technology, so much as uttered “AI,” a chorus of boos rippled through the stadium. The same thing happened at the University of Central Florida, where graduates of the College of Arts and Humanities and the Nicholson School of Communication and Media practically booed their commencement speaker, a real estate executive, off the stage after she declared, “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.” When she said, “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives,” the graduates erupted in applause — cheering for a world they wish they could go back to.
The speaker was a woman named Gloria Caulfield, the VP of Strategic Alliances at the Orlando-based Tavistock Development Company, which creates technologically advanced, master-planned communities. Among Caulfield’s roles is to manage AI medtech partnerships for places like Tavistock’s Lake Nona development. In other words, she inhabits a professional world that really is being revolutionized by AI, and for her and her professional peers, that’s a good thing. When the booing began, Caulfield was genuinely confused. She has no frame of reference for why anyone would oppose AI or be suspicious of it.
But for most college graduates — from a communications school, no less — the advent of AI likely means that the........