Didn't see a thread on this topic yet. Of course, it appears that artificial intelligence technology is going to have a enormous impact on society. And people are still coming to grasp with just how far-reaching those impacts will be.

With governments and corporations racing to develop and widely use AI, we now see these AI data centers being built everywhere (needed to increase the computing power that the projected use of AI requires) that will use massive amounts of power/electricity, with official forecasts predicting that electricity production/consumption will have to double by 2026 from 2022 levels just to accommodate AI. And the data centers require using vast amounts of water (to cool the equipment), which is causing huge impacts on the water supply.

Going back many decades, various novels and movies (many from "insiders" who knew the future plans of the elite/governments) have "predicted" that technology, robots and artificial intelligence would wage war against humanity. I don't believe that artificial intelligence will ever actually become a truly sentient entity, with its own will and conscience. However, it does look like AI will be used (by the ruling elites) to "phase out" humans to a great extent -- for example, by replacing humans in jobs/employment.

The greatest threat and concern from AI, in my opinion, is nefarious elites and governments using the great power of this technology to enable a high-tech, tyrannical "control grid", like the dystopian future that many movies and novels "predicted".

Saw this discussed on the following guy's YT channel about a week ago. China is now going to use humanoid AI robots to patrol it's border with Vietnam. With AI, it is claimed that these robots have human-like "decision-making" capability, almost like having a "brain".

The incredible danger of AI technology is that it is removing the "human element" from government enforcement systems, such as the police and military. If you have a real human acting as a police officer, for instance, it can decide to disobey immoral or tyrannical orders. But with AI replacing those police and soldiers, an evil and tyrannical government, for instance, can more "effectively" implement a tyrannical agenda because those AI robots will not have the ability to disobey their orders.

I've heard it said that the future of warfare is using AI drones. Imagine a tyrannical government like that of communist China with tens of thousands of AI drones flying around, armed with weapons (that can identify you using face-scanning technology, etc) that they can use to assassinate any dissident they want, etc.


https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ubtech-secures-us37-million-deal

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China to deploy battery-swapping humanoid robots for patrols along Vietnam border

Nov 26, 2025

China's UBTech Robotics has secured a 264 million yuan (US$37 million) contract to deploy industrial-grade humanoid robots across border crossings in Guangxi, expanding the country's push to apply robotics in public-facing and industrial environments. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in December.

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For perception and decision-making, the system integrates UBTech's BrainNet 2.0 and Co-Agent AI frameworks, which combine multimodal reasoning, task planning, and autonomous exception handling.

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