I’ve been very fed up with AI for about past 6 months, completely started to boycott it, discuss it with people of all kinds of different views, and I found joy and pride once again in my own work.
But the world issues coming from AI, and even more so from the billionaires and empires behind it seem to further pile up to insane heights. I’ve been trying to learn more and more about it, and after my bachelor and masters I am considering pursuing phd and research surrounding AI, especially from the critical perspective, which seems to be deeply neglected in the research pov.
This is still a few years in the future, and lot could change, but I am curious what do people here think about pursuing such a thing, and if in current academic world it is even something that would be possible doing, given lot of the grants and funding of AI research comes from these companies that just want to gain even more power through it.
As I said, I am already trying to know as much as possible about it, but I would like to look more deeply into its impact on society, impact on students etc.
Do you think this would be a worthwile endevaour? And if not, where do you think I should be heading to make change about this while not completely starving to death?
This article is imho pretty good: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/are-llms-worth-it.html
It’s long but speaks about research in the end. This may be interesting for you
Thank you! I’ll give it a read later :) I do like to see both sides of the coin, as it gives me the opportunity to think more critically about the technology. Of course, Lemmy is sort of this bubble that is just completely against LLMs, which has deeply impacted my views on it too, and also seeing how dependent and completely ignorant many peers in the software engineering/cybersecurity studies are on this technology has pushed me even further against this technology. This is the main reason I would like to further study it, since having deep technical understanding of it could give me the options to fight against it and shape it in a way that could genuinely benefit others, or at least give me a way to educate others about the real implications of LLMs. We’ll see what I’ll take away from reading this article :D