Humanity Will Be Wiped Out, Again
Why Artificial Intelligence won’t actually be a threat, despite endless sensationalistic assertions to the contrary
Lest we forget, media organizations rely on grabbing monetizable eyeballs by any means possible. As ordinary people are captivated, albeit briefly, by mindless sensation it follows that media organizations are fundamentally in the business of generating endless mindless sensationalist content so as to generate profits for shareholders and fat bonuses for their executives. As the “news” is merely a sub-category of general entertainment is also follows that the “news” is by no means immune to this basic economic imperative. Even supposedly non-profit organizations such as the UK’s BBC must show that they are attracting sufficient numbers of eyeballs in order to justify their government subsidy.
And so it is that ordinary people are perpetually being covered in a never-ceasing torrent of intellectual effluent, the sole purpose of which is to attract attention for long enough that ads can be served and data harvested for later sale. It matters not that this perpetual river of mental vomit is profoundly harmful both on an individual level and for society as a whole; so long as money can be generated, all is good.
