| It's regretable you got modded down. Ever since the industrial revolution, humanity has stumbled from one environmental disaster to the other. Heavy metals, CFCs, acid rain, radioactive elements that don't occur naturally, microplastics, PFAS, large scale oil spills, greenhouse gasses, deforestation, over-fishing, species extinction, the list goes on & on. And in each case, early warnings are ignored & the harmful activity is only curbed many decades after deployment at scale, when environmental harm becomes too serious to ignore. Imho AI is no exception to this rule. Its energy usage alone adds to CO2 emissions at a time those should be reduced. Higher efficiency says anyone? No! Higher productivity. Read: same # of humans can consume even bigger amount of resources per time unit. Yeah I can envision the wonders AGI/ASI could bring to humanity. But as deployed right now, it mostly helps to worsen a number of problems in human society (CO2 emissions, wealth inequality, concentration of economic/political power, to name a few). Synthetic life? Absolutely, would be a fantastic scientific milestone. But could also turn into yet another eco disaster. |