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gavi@gavi@bagel.ing (2026-09-10 05:50:31)
They aren’t going to make terminator that will hack the nuclear silos and bomb us all to hell. But here’s what’s going to happen instead if legal guardrails for AI isn’t promptly put into place.

Human creativity will die, and small groups will struggle to keep it alive. Corporations will value LLMs over artists because it’s cheaper, use LLMs in major creative processes and as a result kill off most non indie creative industries. Indie artists will be valuable for small groups of people who still crave human made art, but they will be extremely mistreated and undervalued (more than artists already are).

Bias in medicine will be amplified. Doctors and nurses will be forced to see more patients faster due to the justification of using AI tools, and patient care will suffer as a result. These AI tools will make mistakes and already have in places where they’ve been introduced. A black patient will be denied a transplant due to racial bias ingrained into the AI determining who gets a transplant. In the US, Insurance companies will (and already are) use AI to deny medical and prescription authorization claims. People will die as a result. That one mentally ill patient will have their concerns dismissed by the AI and die of a heart attack. Every bad aspect of healthcare will amplified and we will be sicker for it.

Courts will use AI for sentencing, and again racial bias in the AI models will lead to innocent people being sentenced to ridiculous jail time permanently ruining their lives. People will (and already have been) falsely accused of crimes by AI cameras. People’s computers will falsely suspect them of a crime and report them. (Example, an author searching for how a bomb is made.)

As every aspect of the human society is infected by the bias machine, we will suffer. And as a result human civilization will slowly decay and splinter. Some people will reject AI but it will cost them careers and livelihoods, and for others it will be unavoidable.