At the moment, AI is just a glorified autocomplete and I think it does more harm than good. (For LLMs). Is it a useful tool? Definitely. Should it replace jobs? Hell no. Is it being used as an excuse for the current recession and layoffs caused by offshoring? Hell yes. Is it killing the internet and propagating fake news? Definitely

If we’re talking about other applications (computer vision, image processing etc), then yes. I think think the surveillance states (face verification) and Ukraine-Russia war heavily uses these applications

Nothing will change. The dems seem to be losing on purpose. They could have won last election, but noo they had to go with sleepy Joe before changing to kamala at the last minute, not releasing the Epstein files, and sanewashing trump even after he killed millions during covid, a literal coup in the Whitehouse, and more. Even when they were in power, they mostly championed corporate / lobby group interests instead of the people’s

I use codium. It’s basically VS code without all the proprietary and spooky telemetry. Works well as vscode

I actually envy that 10 yr old. I had passion for tech at a very young age but I lacked the environment. My middle school and high school didn’t have computer / electronics classes so I was mostly self taught (had a lot of knowledge gaps/ had a hard time understanding). I didn’t start taking tech seriously till college.