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by cj 1115 days ago
> It's weird that people trust our world leaders to act more benevolently than AIs, when we have centuries of evidence of human leaders acting selfishly and harming the commons.

AI isn’t an entity or being that oversees itself (at least not yet).

It’s a tool that can be used by those same “human leaders acting selfishly and harming the commons” except they’ll be able to do it much faster at a much greater scale.

> AI raised with dignity and respect.

This is poetic, but what does this actually mean?

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> It’s a tool that can be used by those same “human leaders acting selfishly and harming the commons” except they’ll be able to do it much faster at a much greater scale.

Then, would you agree that restrictions would concentrating power further would exacerbate this issue?

IMO a fitting analogy would be: banning AI development outside of the annointed powerstructure consortium is like banning ICBM defense system research, but still letting the most powerful countries build a nuclear arsenal.