Gentlemen, congratulations. We were given a poll asking whether young adults trust nine technology executives to handle AI responsibly, and in roughly two dozen comments we have managed to arrive at sociopaths, prison sentences, socialism, Trump, immigration, transgender politics, surveillance states, firing squads, environmental collapse, and the apparent destruction of civilization.
AI itself has occasionally been mentioned.
This may be the most TechSpot discussion TechSpot has ever produced.
For the record, there are perfectly legitimate reasons to distrust these executives.
Meta has a long history of privacy and regulatory problems. Google and Microsoft control enormous amounts of data and infrastructure. OpenAI has raised serious questions about transparency, governance and copyright. Nvidia is making staggering amounts of money from the AI buildout. Palantir's government surveillance work deserves scrutiny. Musk carries enough controversies behind him to supply three separate comment sections without assistance.
Those are things we can actually discuss.
“Huang is a puppet.”
“They're rats.”
“They're monsters.”
“They should be in prison.”
“They're all sociopaths.”
“Prove me wrong.”
Those are not arguments. Those are simpleton refrigerator stickers.
Then we discovered the truly horrifying revelation that CEOs of public companies are interested in making money. Apparently this has been going on for some time.
Someone alert the SEC.
The funniest part is that the poll itself is far more interesting than the personality contest. Nadella “won” with only 35% trust. Nobody even came close to majority confidence.
That should raise an interesting question...Why?
Job displacement?
Privacy?
Copyright?
Government surveillance?
Energy use?
Data-center construction?
Corporate concentration?
Lack of transparency?
Pick one. Bring evidence. Make a case. We might accidentally have an intelligent conversation.
Instead we have one side declaring that billionaires are inherently evil, another declaring that socialists are inherently stupid, and everyone apparently wondering why society has become so tribal.
My good men, the mystery may be closer to home than anticipated.
And for those demanding that these people be imprisoned or lined up against a wall, perhaps we could first complete the quaint old fashioned formality of identifying an actual crime.
I realize due process lacks the efficiency of a comment section, but civilization has experimented with both systems and one of them has generally produced better reviews.
So by all means, distrust these CEOs.
I certainly wouldn't hand any of them my wallet and ask them to hold it.
But if the argument is that someone cannot be trusted with AI, tell us what they actually did with AI and why it matters.
Otherwise we're not analyzing technology executives.
We're just throwing vegetables at portraits of rich people.
Which may be therapeutic, but it isn't terribly educational.
I can't post what I really want to say here, it would be banned 
Why do I want them in here 
