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by ecoquant
830 days ago
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The real danger is that at some point we hand over command and control of society completely to algorithms and we get bad results because we simply have no idea what is going on. Maybe even worse is we get long term bad results that in the short term we think are great results. To frame this as the bad result being AI eats though is just stupid. On the surface of potential risk, framing the argument in this way is intellectually embarrassing and highly counter productive. On the flip side, it is hard to see what can actually be done along with huge unintended consequence to whatever is done. Some of the smartest humans to ever live were certain of nuclear annihilation at the start of the atomic age. What could have actually been done in 1945 that would have given us a better outcome? We avoided the paths that lead to nuclear annihilation by building bigger and bigger bombs. Doing nothing but building stronger and stronger AI should be the naive strategy that needs incredibly strong evidence to deviate from. Really strong regulation at the start of the atomic age that keeps nuclear weapons at bay and consequently only in the hands of the US would have been an unimaginable disaster. |
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"Now, increasingly, we live in a world where more and more of these cultural artifacts will be coming from an alien intelligence. Very quickly we might reach a point when most of the stories, images, songs, TV shows, whatever are created by an alien intelligence.
And if we now find ourselves inside this kind of world of illusions created by an alien intelligence that we don’t understand, but it understands us, this is a kind of spiritual enslavement that we won’t be able to break out of because it understands us. It understands how to manipulate us, but we don’t understand what is behind this screen of stories and images and songs."
-Yuval Noah Harari