[jlgray]

Science and technology are generally agnostic to their usage, and will be used to both positive and negative ends whose magnitude is proportional to the power of the underlying technology.*

AI has the potential for massive positive effects as well as massive negative effects.

What saddens me is that we have systems and incentives in place which encourage governments and corporations to use powerful technologies to negative ends.

* Obviously there is room to quibble about the positive/negative balance of individual technologies, e.g. gunpowder, bio-weapons, etc., however I am sure a circumspect analysis could find positives even in things developed primarily to improve the efficiency of war.

[myaccount80]

But LeCunn still works for Facebook. I don’t understand why such a smart person should spend his time working for such a company.

[ousta]

are you serious? there is no way to do research on massive amounts of data at the public level anymore. if you want to change things its in the private. + money is also good