Highly recommend you take a few minutes to watch this. American senator Bernie Sanders in conversation with Claude AI.

To be sure this is a little bit of a political meme-centric set up to engage viewers. But the actual content, the actual answers provided by the AI agent is an excellent summary of why we should all fear where the future present is taking us.

This¹ is why I hate everything AI and am doing my very best to extract myself from any system that is using it (something that is rapidly becoming impossible).

1. …and the gargantuan negative impact that the AI industrial complex is having in further accelerating climate change. ↩︎