--- date: '2024-02-25' title: 'I need AI' description: 'I need AI to waste energy. I need it to deprive vulnerable communities of water so that it can be used to cool new data centers. I need AI to make up answers to my questions.' tags: ['AI', 'tech'] --- I need AI to waste energy. I need it to deprive vulnerable communities of water so that it can be used to cool new data centers. I need AI to make up answers to my questions. I need AI to make up APIs and lower my code quality. I need it to repeatedly give me wrong answers until I realize I could have just written it myself. I need it to fail to answer customer questions and make up company policies. I need AI to ignore qualified job candidates. I need AI to attend meetings that could have been an email and write emails that could have been a Slack message. I need AI to produce generic art for unimaginative creators. I need AI to exploit publicly available content on the web without compensating any creators. I need AI to deskill knowledge work and weaken labor. I need AI to miscategorize images so we can apologize for it after the damage has been done. I need AI to pilot autonomous vehicles that injure pedestrians and take jobs from taxi drivers and truckers. I need AI to create more invasive and insidious advertising for things I don't need. I need AI to do even more damage to the journalism industry and create content nobody can trust. I need AI to produce gimmicky videos that threaten the jobs of creators and secure funding for the already wealthy. I need AI that can't taste to create recipes. I need AI that's never traveled to plan my vacation. I need AI that can't appreciate music to recommend music for me. I need AI to replace web search with answers I can't trust and with no benefit to content creators. Life is short and I need AI to flood what time I have with more garbage to sift through. Who **asked** for this?