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   Kevin Russell (kevinrns@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 09:24:21 JST Kevin Russell

   Hey! The new Pope hates AI just like us.

   "the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor,”

   https://gizmodo.com/the-new-pope-wants-to-take-on-ai-2000600652

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 09:24:19 JST Nicole Parsons

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     "The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ [these] machines."

     Frank Herbert

     To get an idea of what AI is intended to do by its investors, look at the motivations of Larry Ellison, Charles Koch, Peter Thiel, Mohammad bin Salman, Alwaleed bin Talal, and Marc Andreessen....

     They all want AI data centers that will inflate fossil fuel use & thwart a phase out.

     They all want Orwellian state surveillance of every human being.

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     They all want a petrostate dictatorship.

     Larry Ellison
     https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

     https://www.techradar.com/pro/oracle-cto-wants-to-put-all-americas-data-into-one-big-system-to-study-including-dna

     https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

     Charles Koch
     https://www.newsweek.com/ai-race-fossil-powered-generators-are-data-centers-dirty-secret-2068791

     https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestowersclark/2025/03/14/how-ai-changes-critical-thinking-new-microsoft-research-findings/

     https://www.salon.com/2018/11/05/koch-brothers-are-watching-you-and-new-documents-expose-how-much-they-know/

     https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/10/power-hungry-ai-data-centres-seen-driving-demand-for-fossil-fuels/

     https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500

     Peter Thiel
     https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/15/peter-thiel-who-is-he-republican-donor-tech-entrepreneur

     https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/thiels-gawker-takedown-could-be-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/

     https://www.newsweek.com/peter-thiel-pre-nazi-germany-us-comparison-resurfaces-1934760

     https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/peter-thiel-2024-election-politics-investing-life-views/675946/

     https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-regulation/palantir-ai-surveillance-585999

     https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-jd-vance-peter-thiel-founded-company-helps-israel-kill-lists-palestinians-gaza

     https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/24216215/palantir-microsoft-azure-ai-defense-partnership-surveillance

     https://sherwood.news/business/ai-companies-cia-is-investing-in/

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     And they are willing to kill to get it.

     Mohammed bin Salman
     https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos_phone_hacking_incident

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi

     https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/politics/jamal-khashoggi-killing-cia-report.html

     https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-42129374

     https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/world/middleeast/mohammed-bin-salman-saudi-arabia.html

     https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html

     https://observer.com/2019/01/how-saudi-arabia-crown-prince-mbs-rose-to-power/

     https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wall-street-mbs-saudi-al-rumayyan/

     Alwaleed bin Talal
     https://www.agbi.com/analysis/entrepreneurs/2024/11/question-mark-over-kingdom-holdings-2bn-musk-twitter-investment/

     https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/31/saudi-prince-alwaleed-becomes-twitters-second-largest-shareholder/

     https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-24/price-alwaleed-s-elon-musk-ties-are-boosting-his-comeback-bid

     https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/twitter-x-saudi-arabia-advertisers-elon-musk-prince-alwaleed/

     https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/05/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-invests-elon-musks-24b-ai-startup

     Marc Andreessen
     https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marc-andreessen-semafor-group-chat-signal/

     https://newrepublic.com/article/166048/fox-news-petromasculinity-fossil-fuels