The people pushing this technology, that accelerates climate change, have lobbied the government to circumvent typical roadblocks created by society to limit sensationalist development. Incidentally, the same people who talk about how dangerous AI will be for society, but don't worry, they're going to be the one to deliver it safely.

Now, I don't believe AI will ever amount to enough to be a critical threat to human life, you know, beyond the immense amounts of wasted energy they propose to convert into something more useful, like a market crash or heat and noise, or both.

Not sure how you can call someone opposed to any of that "anti-civilisational" matter-of-factly.