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by empath-nirvana 928 days ago
A lot of the AI doom stuff is essentially just a criticism of capitalism and corporations in general. There's essentially no difference between a hypothesized runaway AI and a normal multinational corporation. We have, right now, large semi-autonomous organizations called "corporations" that are making the earth uninhabitable in pursuit of profits at the expense of human suffering. Corporations are nominally in control of people, but any people that get in the way of profits are pushed aside.