[13years]

It is already causing undue harm to people around the world.

Nefarious use, from scams, weaponized tech, propaganda and just the magnitude of noise generated by meaningless content, we are about to have a burden of undesirable effects to deal with in regards to both powerful and easily available technology to all.

There is so much focus on the problems of future AGI, but little on AI that we have now, working as designed, but yet still very problematic from the impacts on societal order.

I've elaborated much on the societal and social implications in the following reference. I expect AI will lead all concerns in the area of unexpected consequences in due time.

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things

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That post came off as a bit hyperbolic to me, but I fundamentally agree with the premise that this will have an impact much like social media, with all its unforeseen consequences. It’s not about AGI taking over the world in some mechanistic fashion, it’s about all the trouble that we as humans get into interacting with these systems.

[13years]

> That post came off as a bit hyperbolic to me

I would say it is as hyperbolic as the promised capabilities of AI. Meaning that if it truly has the capability claimed, then the potential damage is equivalent. Nonetheless, I expect we will see a significant hype bubble implosion at some point.

> it’s about all the trouble that we as humans get into interacting with these systems

Yes, it will always be us. Even if AGI "takes over the world", it would have been us that foolishly built the machine that does so.