Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/18/countries-do-not-embrace-ai-left-behind-george-osborne

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28 Comments

chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 194d

Capitalist pig says buy our product or else. Story at 11.

GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 44 pts · 194d

"You know who doesn't buy my drugs? Maidenless losers." Said every drug dealer in history. It's not even good marketing hype, it's just sad at this point.

Soulphite@reddthat.com · 34 pts · 194d (2 replies)

I for one do not welcome these AI overlords. Get fucked.

Sims@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 193d (1 reply)

You lived ignorant/happily under the current Oligarch overlords - at least for a while..

Soulphite@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 193d

Happily? That's a stretch.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 194d

heroin entrepreneur says all the cool kids are doing heroin

db2@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 194d

Eat shit Georgie.

Khari@feddit.org · 20 pts · 194d

He seems to have a financial incentive to say this.

abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 194d (3 replies)

Oh boy, it's time to show this gif of George Osbourne off his tits in Parliament again!

icerunner_origin@startrek.website · 2 pts · 194d (2 replies)

The only good use of AI would be to use the heat from its excessive power consumption to keep our sausage rolls warm

abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 194d (1 reply)

Wasn't he the chancellor who introduced the tax on take out food.

icerunner_origin@startrek.website · 2 pts · 193d

The very same

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 194d (1 reply)

Can I get left behind?

Telorand@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 194d

Waiting for the AI rapture to take all these fuckwits away.

SouthFresh@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 194d

"My farts smell nummy" - George Osborne

one_old_coder@piefed.social · 10 pts · 194d (2 replies)

FOMO, fear of missing out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomo

icerunner_origin@startrek.website · 11 pts · 194d

Oh, I thought it stood for Fuck Off, Miserable Osborne

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 192d

"Hurry! Before the bubble bursts!"

kalkulat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 193d

Holding on to one's preferred human culture and values is not being 'left behind' in any sense ... they may in fact be 'left ahead'.

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 194d

"Please be an early adopter, otherwise we might run out of money if you wait for the technology to mature and sufficient use cases to emerge"

Justifier@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 193d

Shiiit,

Don't threaten me with a good time

Leave my country behind thanks!

I can do without this flavour of development: wealth concentration, surveillance, censorship, and inevitable enshitification

Call me in 20-30 years when its testing grounds have been burned down and its a client side only, fully open sourced consumer favored code

Don't need or want your Ai slop enshitified distopian dream thanks, Mr/Mrs dozen golden parachute packing multi-billionaire wannabe CEO

omarthemediocre@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 194d

That OpenAI that is strugglin to make any money out of their tech and will probably go bankrupt in a year? Ok

robocall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 193d

lol

fulgidus@feddit.it · 2 pts · 193d

Suck my LLM (Long Lingual Mallet)

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 193d

"left behind" sure I think most of the world is fine with that.

Auster@thebrainbin.org · 2 pts · 192d

Going by the headline alone, fearmongering at best.

rodneylives@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d

What is a post doing on Lemmy's top list with a minus 56 reputation?

deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 192d

Hey it's Emily from Emily's Bags of Rice and I'm here to give you a totally unbiased warning: if you don't buy my bags of rice you'll regret it! Buy my product or you'll definitely die! Trust me, I know because I'm smart.