I'm biased against AI/LLMs for a number of reasons. There's all the usual problems with commoditising human creativity, but making it worthless (i.e. slop) but I see a big problem with the attempt to use AI to consolidate power/wealth into the hands of the already powerful/wealthy. There's also the major issue with burning up our planet's ecosystems just to keep fuelling the AI data centres, but more immediately, there's the issue of the imminent collapse of the global economy due to the massive circular investment in AI and associated technologies. (I don't want to forget about the more selfish issue of memory and computer equipment getting more expensive too).

So, I'm not convinced that taking an anti-AI view is really extremism, but is more pragmatism. It seems that "industry leaders" (popular bullshitters would be my description) are offering a choice of unemployment if AI lives up to the hype or global economy collapse if it doesn't.

Whist I'm venting, I might as well draw attention to the following from https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/coun...

> Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;

Luckily, I'm not in the U.S. but those seem to be overly broad terms to basically target anyone. I'm a confirmed atheist, so "anti-Christianity" would certainly cover me. "Anti-capitalism" could mean anything - helping a neighbour without charging them money could be termed anti-capitalist.

I don't see how the state of affairs in the USA can continue much longer without an obituary or civil war, but maybe I'm biased.