Hot Reddit take: AI should be restricted to R&D, everything else banned
Smooth_Secret394 · reddit · 2026-11-10
A controversial Reddit post argues AI should only serve R&D (protein design, space robots), claiming consumer AI and AI art make people dumber and displace artists. The author also cites data-center environmental harms: tribal land seized in India and Google clearing 250,000 trees in Finland for an AI data center. The post sparked heated community debate over AI's societal impact.
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