DAVID MARCUS: Big Tech invented AI doomsday to duck real life problems

As if Americans didn’t have enough to worry about — making ends meet and planning for the future — the heads of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies are now warning that their groundbreaking technology could leave us with no future at all: We may all be dead.

It really is a shame, given that we just survived climate change and COVID-19.

Now this? Maybe we can just shut down AI for two weeks to flatten the curve.

This week, Democrats have been jumping all over themselves to hop on board this moribund bandwagon to do what they always do — regulate industry to death and hamper growth.

SANDERS PUSHES 'DEATH PENALTY' FOR CRUCIAL US INDUSTRY THAT COULD GIVE ADVANTAGE TO FOREIGN ADVERSARIES According to Sen.

Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., "Congress, under both Democratic and Republican control, has been asleep at the wheel, and we now have a president whose ignorance regarding this issue is truly embarrassing." Meanwhile, Rep.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned that "AI technology can be very dangerous when pursued without any guardrails." But given her repeated predictions that the world will end within five years because of climate change, it’s unclear why it matters.

RESEARCHER WHO DEPARTED AI ROLE OVER FEARS OF RACING INTO EXTINCTION SAYS PEOPLE ARE 'BEGGING' FOR REGULATION Look, AI is not going to destroy humanity in the next decade, as Jacob Coxon, a former employee and so-called whistleblower at Anthropic — a leading AI company — warned recently.

Frankly, the notion is absurd, which is why nobody can actually explain it.

One must seriously ask oneself, how exactly is AI going to kill me? Is it going to come to my house with a gun, is it going to hack the nuke codes or unleash a deadly virus? Surely, it's not that hard to have human beings as fail-safes in those scenarios.

THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA ON YOUR STREET CORNER: LAWFUL SPYING OR CONSTITUTIONALLY PROBLEMATIC? No, the dangers attendant to AI are not sci-fi fantasies of super intelligence going rogue and plotting the demise of the meat puppets.

As exciting as all of that is, the real dangers are much more mundane, and much more implacable.

Across the country, local school boards are struggling with whether and how to use AI in kids’ education.

County commissioners are balancing the crime fighting capability of AI-driven cameras against personal freedom.