Why? All the money is 1’s and 0’s on the computer. I’d not like they physically have a billion dollars in printed stocks.

Do… do you put milk in your car?

Are you okay, buddy?

We really do need to figure out what we’re gonna do when an AI fucks up and gets someone the death penalty for a parking ticket or something.

If a real lawyer were to fuck you over, you could report them to the bar association and have their license taken away. Could even sue them for losses. Will you be able to come for an AIs license? Can you get restitution from the AI company for things the AI did?

We’ve already seen AIs toast entire production environments. If a human did that, they’d be fired at the least. If an investigation found it was done intentionally, a human could potentially be sued for losses of revenue. Nothing has happened to the AIs that have done this. There is no recourse. I can think of no worse industry for a lack of accountability than law.

Am HVAC tech.

No one has money. I knew things were truly fucked before Christmas when I was talking to a guy, standing in his living room that is larger than my entire fucking house, and he was hemming and hawing about replacing his furnace blower motor that was actively leaking oil. I felt scummy having to point out that it is an actual fire hazard. He pushed the repair off to the new year so he could get some money together. Another guy had to call his sister to pay me for his dispatch fee, and then said he’d buy an inducer motor at Home Depot because my quote for the warranty repair was too high. I wish him the best of luck.

It has not gotten better. I fear for my job on a weekly basis. I had to switch to a new company due to moving states for my wife’s job, and I am having a hell of a time proving I can bring value when people are barely able to afford capacitors at discounted rates. I had one guy whose unit won’t even start just say they’ll just not have AC.

He’s cooked, I’m cooked, we’re all cooked.

The way the laws are being written, it applies to literally any computing device.

They just say “operating system” there’s no carve out for servers or iot or anything. Technically you will have to provide a date of birth to use a smart fridge now. Hell, there’s at least one toaster I know of that has a full android install on it, that will need age verification too.

Remember your LOTO before you snip the wires

I bet ya there’s some meds on your bathroom counter you might want to make sure you took this morning.