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by wkat4242
923 days ago
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Yeah that's the thing, if it can be done it will be done. In a way I think it's better to be us then. There's a point though about how social media algorithms have toxified society in a big way by promoting content that gets people worked up. Considering the ubiquity with which we'll be using GAI this would be a cause for concern there too in an even bigger way. Because AI will be all over society. I do agree there. But skynet taking over the world? I don't see it happen but if it can happen it's pretty much inevitable anyway. Sooner or later someone will go there, rules or not. |
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This isn't true at all, but it is at least a common trope among technologists. There's lot of things we don't pursue, and lots of technology we control. We could be investing tons of R&D into improving nuclear weapons. We don't. But either way, “us vs them” doesn’t matter when you’re talking about h leashing some hypothetical non-human superintelligence. The “them” is the AI and you cannot control it.
> There's a point though about how social media algorithms have toxified society in a big way by promoting content that gets people worked up.
You can find people making the exact same argument anywhere you like in history as a reason we should forbid free speech and free press. It is not new or unique to social media, and the historical consequences of unfounded rumors and misinformation have often been quite deadly, from mass violent riots to brutal unjustified suppressions to wars.
The "but misinformation" argument is so not new, you can find people arguing in the Constitutional Convention about "designing men" riling up the masses with fake news for political ends. [1]
[1] https://teachingamericanhistory.org/resource/convention/deba...
> The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. In Massts. it had been fully confirmed by experience that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing men, and which no one on the spot can refute.