It may also be that disabled, transgender and nonbinary people are more aware of:
Why is a statistical survey bullshit because of your personal view on the matter? Where does the survey imply that transgender, nonbinary and disabled people are the only ones who dislike AI?
The graphic shows that every group has attitudes that are somewhere between completely negative and completely positive. The groups mentioned are just a bit more negative than the others.
The survey concludes that transgender, non-binary and disabled people tend to view AI more negatively than others. Nothing about this statistical result implies that there aren’t plenty of people in other groups, like you, who view AI negatively. It makes a claim about statistical trends.
If you read a report on statistical trends and repond “That’s bullshit! It doesn’t describe me!” it suggests you’re missing the point of surveys and statistics. The survey is quite compatible with many non-disabled cis men disliking AI a lot.
From that article:
The comments were Trump’s strongest criticism of the bipartisan CHIPS Act to date. “We don’t have to give them money,” Trump said, suggesting that avoiding new tariffs would be enough to convince them to build U.S. factories.
I think that, insofar as Trump has a coherent view, that’s it: he doesn’t want to give companies money to establish chip manufacturing in the USA, because he thinks it can be done instead by bullying them with tariffs so they are forced to fund it themselves if they want to stay in business.
I’m not saying that’s a wise view. There’s a good chance he just ends up creating more economic problems at home. And it’s in part driven by his desire to get revenge on Biden by undoing everything he did, rather than a rational appraisal of economics.
The real problem seems to be that none of the news articles try to dig into what Trump’s vague and ambiguous wording actually means. They just report his nonsense verbatim. Does “building in the USA” mean building chips or building products containing chips?
It’s a tax of 100% on chips being imported to the USA, having been manufactured elsewhere. The idea is that it should force companies to set up their own chip manufacturing in the USA. But that’s expensive and slow to do, and requires a lot of specialized engineering talent, so US-based electronics companies will somehow have to survive through years of paying twice as much for the chips they build into their products. This will mean significant price increases for Americans buying electronics, as the unavoidable costs are passed on.
Time to cancel those Microsoft subscriptions.
These fascists believe in eugenics and that the “weak” deserve to die. They also often believe in some idiotic notion of God’s will to save only the chosen few (namely, themselves). And they believe that science is messing with God’s natural order of things. Using science to help everyone to live is just not something they’re interested in.
Even just recently we’ve heard about amazing results from mRNA vaccines for HIV and some kinds of cancer. Meanwhile bird flu continues to threaten a pandemic that could be much worse than the last one. So the fascists try to stop it. They hate that science can be authoritative in ways they can never be.
Since they almost never take the blame or suffer any consequences, most of them are not doing even that “job”. They’re parasites on the work of others.
A CEO’s main job is to spout bullshit, which is also AI’s particular talent.
Maybe if they keep going and add a few more words it will magically start to mean something.
“Protecting children” is just the pretext under which governments can sell increased surveillance. The fact that there are more effective ways they could act to protect children, yet governments everywhere continue to push for ID checks and monitoring online activity, shows that the aim isn’t what they say it is.
I would say Nadella is the biggest bullshitter of them all. I don’t think I’ve heard him speak a single non-bullshit sentence.
“We’re entering FY26 with clear priorities in security, quality, and AI transformation, building on our momentum and grounded in our mission and growth-mindset culture,” Hood wrote, mentioning Nadella’s email. “Both the pace of change and customer expectations are continuously accelerating.”
Hood’s email, notably, didn’t mention Microsoft’s recent workforce cuts, which have exceeded 10,000 this year even as profit swells. Nadella’s email last week attempted to explain this “seeming incongruence” as the “enigma of success.” Some employees weren’t satisfied with the explanation.
These people get paid so much for spouting this utter bullshit every day. I hope they have moments when they realize the hollowness of what they do.
And time to hold on to old devices. They’ll become like old cars: the only ones the owner can fully control.
Only approved AIs and humans carrying a corporately issued developer license will be allowed to develop software.
And meshnets that don’t go through corporate infrastructure?
Keir Starmer is trying to out-fascist the fascists, and fascists love to experiment on children.
Also, apparently capitalism doesn’t work unless everyone hypes whatever the techbros are selling this week.
The survey discovered that people in those groups are more likely to view AI negatively than those in other groups.
People in these groups may have different or additional reasons for viewing AI negatively that are not common to other groups. It’s a question for further research why they tend to view AI more negatively. It might very well be because they’re trans, nonbinary or disabled - perhaps for conscious reasons or perhaps because of other factors. The survey shows that there are more questions to be asked and that it would be worth paying attention to the experiences of these groups.