Online threats to physically sabotage AI data centers, which house the servers necessary to train, deploy, and deliver AI services, have proliferated over the past year according to surveying by The Soufan Center. Anti-AI resistance is not ideologically uniform, and instead has been driven by ethical, environmental, economic, and religious concerns. Contributing factors to potential future violent anti-AI acts and physical sabotage include concerns about its effect on employment and quality of life. Anti-AI resistance should be considered alongside heightened anti-corporate sentiment among younger generations and the politicization of the major AI companies.
As Data Centers Proliferate, Anti-AI Resistance Has the Potential to Turn Violent (The Soufan Center)
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