The issue isn’t that AI is super intelligent. The issue is that AI is super dumb.
The reason it’s an existential threat is that humans are dumb too, and we’ve been caught numerous times putting dumb AI in charge of automating very important decisions that affect life and death.
Legislators are writing laws with AI. Police are using AI to determine who to arrest. Lawyers are arguing cases with AI. Judges are basing their decisions with AI. Militaries are automatically generating and approving assassination lists with AI. And the leaders of the most powerful military in the world is now working to build autonomous weapons with AI.
Shortly after the US bombed a girl’s school that was targeted with AI, the UN had a meeting to discuss how to regulate the use of AI in war. There was no discussion of banning it. Even the UN is planning to use AI in weapons of war. This is an existential threat to all life on earth.
I don’t like saying ai is a threat, I feel it lends credibility to the magic 8-ball child porn machine. I think we should focus on making people who claim it has use for anything besides masturbation feel like idiots.
Imagine a self charging drone flying around autonomously and deciding on its own who to kill. But it hallucinates (because AI is dumb) and frequently thinks that school children are valid military targets.
Now imagine tens of thousands of them, like we’re seeing in Ukraine and Russia. All autonomous murder bots hallucinating around the globe.
AI is, in fact, an existential threat.
The issue isn’t that AI is super intelligent. The issue is that AI is super dumb.
The reason it’s an existential threat is that humans are dumb too, and we’ve been caught numerous times putting dumb AI in charge of automating very important decisions that affect life and death.
Legislators are writing laws with AI. Police are using AI to determine who to arrest. Lawyers are arguing cases with AI. Judges are basing their decisions with AI. Militaries are automatically generating and approving assassination lists with AI. And the leaders of the most powerful military in the world is now working to build autonomous weapons with AI.
Shortly after the US bombed a girl’s school that was targeted with AI, the UN had a meeting to discuss how to regulate the use of AI in war. There was no discussion of banning it. Even the UN is planning to use AI in weapons of war. This is an existential threat to all life on earth.
I don’t like saying ai is a threat, I feel it lends credibility to the magic 8-ball child porn machine. I think we should focus on making people who claim it has use for anything besides masturbation feel like idiots.
we we’re doing fine accidentally bombing things prior to now: https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html
The difference is “autonomous weapons”
Imagine a self charging drone flying around autonomously and deciding on its own who to kill. But it hallucinates (because AI is dumb) and frequently thinks that school children are valid military targets.
Now imagine tens of thousands of them, like we’re seeing in Ukraine and Russia. All autonomous murder bots hallucinating around the globe.
How would you feel if someone gave the decision of who to nuke to a magic 8 ball porn machine?
See now why it’s a threat?