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by materialpoint 34 days ago
AI harbours evil, because unskilled people tend to trust it blindly. People have already been evicted, arrested and harassed by police simply because they choose to trust technology that flags or "recognizes" them, with no proof that they can trust it. This happens automatically. Thus, AI should be treated as potentially malicious, especially when it is sold as neutral.
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do computers harbor evil? the thing AI runs on? the thing that has kind of facilitated all the bad things you mentioned with normal boring algorithms?

does electricity harbor evil?

That's just asinine. You understood the point perfectly.
You pretend that you don't understand the point. Just like Nazi collaborators "pretending they just follow orders" wouldn't see the "bad thing in just making trains go to their destination".