This is phishing/scam heaven. I already warned some european friends in healthcare about this and hope someone considers legal steps against such unethical and dangerous practices.

They are actually one of the leading companies when it comes to optics. Swarovski has quite a few interesting business branches, my favourite is SWARCO which makes reflective road markings, traffic management systems and even e-car smart charging solutions.

Disclaimer: Senior Cloud Engineer for a $billion+ SaaS company here

I think this argument is only valid if you would use cloud services without private networking set up. The #1 skill a company needs if it wants to leverage the cloud is network engineering/security. There are things like Azure ExpressRoute and AWS DirectConnect that give you private access to the cloud providers own backbone network infrastructure to avoid sending traffic over the public internet. And if you are worried about securing the data at rest, you have everything available to encrypt and protect it. In my experience the problem is not that "the cloud" is insecure but companies trying to avoid the extra mile to properly set up their infrastructure for the sake of saving money and efforts. Sure, the hardware is not owned by you. But why should it be? Running this stuff at hyperscale is the more efficient and ultimately secure and reliable way.

The article lists decades of breaches, leaks and neglected security.

What are you going to say, when the next breach happens, might be at AWS?

Or the Government bans private encryption?

For some reason people find it rude to take the next logical inference from evidence... I hope you're not one of them.

Fool me once, shame on .. Fool me for a decade... !

Climate scientists were called "Doomers" decades ago when they predicted that we will destroy the natural world as we know it with unimaginable consequences for human civilisation. Yet they were right. So I do not agree with dismissing those concerns. Humanity should rather start imagining the worst case that can come from any given technology and then decide if and how those outcomes can be avoided.

The big problem with AI in my opinion is that it's a technology that can only be controlled by large and powerful corporations. The amount of data needed, as well as the amounts of compute power needed to train and run AI models puts it out of reach for the major part of humanity. Yet AI will control or at least influence every aspect of peoples lives, from hiring decisions to medical treatments to what information they see on the internet. Allowing companies to wield this power unchecked is irresponsible and incredibly dangerous.

Unfortunately, companies like OpenAI are using the fact that politicians don't know enough about technology to even remotely understand how AI works and what regulations would be required to keep it in check. So they will abused it in any way imaginable.