Humans love chainsaws

Everything you love and fear about AI, explained through the lens of humanity's favourite power tool.

Chainsaws, are one of the most amazing machines humans have ever created.

This humble machine has had a profound and long-lasting impact on every single aspect of human society. We have all benefitted from chainsaws and the life we live today, would not be possible without them.

People are all-in on chainsaws, even when they don't realise it, or even think they are terrible. You can do so many things with a chainsaw:

Do work or create Art

Be dainty or throw back some big dick energy

They are so much a part of society, we sell toy versions for kids.

• I left a footnote for the Husqvarna marketing team

Chainsaws can be fun, empowering and improve our lives.

Most importantly, they allow people to gather resources and improve their lives in ways they would never be able to do in the past. Old technology such as an axe or manual saw were simply too slow and had a terrible human toll on the user. Chainsaws reduces time and effort involved, and it makes all the down stream results like cheap wooden furniture possible.

But there's a catch

A chainsaw neither knows, not cares what you use it for. It is a tool, and it doesn't pass moral judgment on deforestation or global warming.

A chainsaw doesn't care if you use it to strip life from the face of the earth, and it will never saw no.

If you don't read the tiny manual shipped with it, or learnt how to use it properly or just apply some common sense, it will effortlessly cut your leg off. Absolutely no fucks will be given by the chainsaw. (I saved you the ick of a chainsaw injury photo, no need to thank me).

Now

I want you to re-read this and replace the word "Chainsaw" with "Artificial Intelligence" and you'll have some idea of the scale of the opportunities and problems that AI creates for society.

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On another topic

Dear Husqvarna Group, get your shit together.

The girl is posed toward the camera and not watching her actions. Her expression is controlled, restrained and performative. It says, “look at me with this slightly scary object, aren't I cute!”. She is not DOING anything with the saw. In fact, she is leaning away from the doing aspect of this story.

The boy is posed toward the saw and the action. He is applying force, leaning into the action. His expression demonstrates excitement and energy. He is wearing far more appropriate attire for using a chainsaw.

You could write a gender thesis on just these two images....