“Whether people like AI or not, they are probably already using it. We have a good opportunity here to build something. To us, it’s a success story for the province.”
What a poor argument. Yes, they probably already are. Maybe not even by choice.
Go open a browser and Google something. Boom, AI shoved down your throat whether you want it or not.
Open a support ticket. Boom, AI assistant which spews junk answers until you get a real human.
We aren’t given a choice sometimes…
“whether you like slavery or not, fact is that it happens so you might as well participate” fuck you
And when the Freedom City brainiacs suck up the last drop of fresh water during fire season to power a monstrosity nobody wants and only makes more work and less security for people, at least Interim Reeve Ray Orb will have the comfort of knowing it wasn’t wasted on some useless plant or person.
The R.M. arranged a livestream of the meeting but audio was unavailable until just before council voted unanimously
I want to live in a world where people go to jail for doing shit like this.
[edit to remove ranting about techbros]
There are billboards for Bell’s AI around and they are absolutely dystopic. “What if every diagnosis came with a second opinion” oh great, we’re gonna get AI slop to contradict trained doctors.
Yeah that tv spot is wild too: “the industrial revolution has been net positive for society”
So fucking tired of technofascists.
Wow, over half of the council weren’t voted in
Literally just mocking democracy at this point.
I found more details about when those resignations happened from a link in OP’s link:
Feb 9 - council approves a zoning change “to allow the AI data centre to proceed to a design stage”
March 16 - another closed meeting, this time something about ethics complaints
March 18 - 4 of the 7 council members resign and they’re all mum about it. Maybe an NDA?
With the four resignations, Sherwood’s council no longer has quorum to conduct any meetings to address regular business. […] In the meantime, per The Municipalities Act, the Minister of Government Relations will appoint “one or more persons to act as members of council” to meet quorum requirements until the fall.
Also Middle of March, the Bell Canada President and Scott Moe came out and said “the data centre would be moving ahead in this spring.”
Now, April 20, another closed-door meeting. “We get so many emails tho.” “Oops, our audio was off until the vote part! Our bad!” “Don’t worry - they did a self-assessment.” It’s so blatant, it’s almost funny.
With so much land around,why so close to the city?
