You know who they are.
"The Deniers."
It started, as all evil invariably does, with scapegoating the Jews, or at least the few who survived the Nazi Holocaust. Holocaust Denial was the first blow struck by the ascendant forces of far-right revanchism. Climate change, moon landing, and vaccine efficacy denials followed. After that came Saddam's WMD denials, 9/11 denials, and Putin's denial he had his freedom-hating eyes on Kyiv. And it sure looks to me like this sordid cesspool of Luddites, Neanderthals, and psychopaths have fixed their hate-filled gaze on AI.
Ever since the transformative firstgen chatbots were unleashed a few years ago, the usual troglodytes have raised their voices in a non-stop crescendo of hate against the myriad benefits this revolutionary technology has already bestowed on humanity. As just one example - the same raving antisemites accusing Israel of genocide, completely dismiss the IDF's contract with Palantir AI that saves thousands of lives in Gaza.
And while that should have been a warning, yesterday's goings on in the skies over America offer an even more alarming Code Red; to wit: every single story across US media blamed this obvious communist China cyberattack on, get this, America's world-leading AI companies! Without a shred of evidence! Just because the FAA had upgraded their comms with the AI-enabled SMART tool a few days earlier!
The state of American journalism is bleak indeed. In Canada, on the other hand, our state broadcaster leads the way in fact-based reportage. In none of their coverage of yesterdays unscheduled landings of thousands of passenger jets does CBC indulge in idle speculation re an AI connection.
For that we have Brodie Fenlon to thank, the steely-nerved CBC General Manager of Narrative Product. It's what keeps CBC cred soaring! It's why we turn to Brodie for clarity on discerning betwixt and between actual and potential human remains, and why we turn to US news networks for clarity on how many trans-women it takes to shoot up a school.
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