The Doomsayer

You use AI because work put it in front of you, you expect it to leave people worse off, and the thing they're building next should not be built at all.

To you, AI is a handy tool and nothing more. IT made Copilot mandatory, so it sits in your docs and inbox and you touch it every day. Maybe you've even set up an automation or two and found them useful but limited. Maybe you only open ChatGPT for emails or when a class requires it. Either way, you'd uninstall all of it tomorrow.

Your case against it comes in flavors, and you hold most of them. It will be turned on regular people: bosses, surveillance, privacy gone, the data center near your kid's school and the electric bill going up with it. It takes the good work first, the novels and the illustrations, and leaves you editing AI drafts. Some days you worry people will start worshipping it. And past all that sits AGI, the line we shouldn't cross: a rogue superintelligence that won't stay on a leash, bought for trillions in an arms race. You listened to Hinton and believed him.

You've signed a pause petition, donated to an AI safety group, shared "I want AI to do my dishes, not my art," and asked a lab CEO "so... why are you building it?" You have double-digit odds on doom and wince saying them.

You are not a Luddite. You want useful tools, human dignity, and an international treaty. Instead you get a demo. Nobody listens, which is the Cassandra part.