I attended a Black tech mixer this week where the panel was evangelizing AI as the future of the workforce. At some point, they asked what the audience’s biggest concerns about AI were. There were four options & none of them considered the environment. 🧪 - ThreadSky

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kilan.co • 51 days ago

I attended a Black tech mixer this week where the panel was evangelizing AI as the future of the workforce. At some point, they asked what the audience’s biggest concerns about AI were. There were four options & none of them considered the environment. 🧪

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kilan.co•51 days ago

(deep sigh) Black, Brown, rural, & lower-income communities ALWAYS suffer disproportionately from environmental burdens, so we know who is most threatened by the AI data centers popping up all over the US. We know who will go without power if ever commercial demands outweigh residential needs.

kilan.co•51 days ago

Tech companies are backsliding on climate pledges that were set to mitigate global warming, threatening the health of our planet. Our ONLY home, while they plan on how to colonize the next one. They will run our waters dry, pollute our air, & then leave us behind to suffer the consequences.

kilan.co•51 days ago

I appreciate technological innovation, but as a Black woman, I feel compelled to remind y’all that capitalism will not save us. Climate disasters (wildfires in LA and last year’s hurricane in Asheville) should remind us that we cannot afford to acquiesce to the wealthy few’s vision for this world.

kilan.co•51 days ago

Black folks around the world (& it goes beyond us) don’t have the most to gain from the rise of AI, we have the most to lose. AI is not inevitable, nor are the changes to our world that an AI-driven future would require. So, how do we shift from evangelizing to fighting back?

bendithion.bsky.social•51 days ago

The combination of unregulated capital and AI poses an existential threat to social order and possibly humanity itself.

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