Comment by idlewords
3 years ago
I think even dumber-than-human AI is extremely hazardous and agree with you entirely. The problem I have with the singularity crowd is that they make it impossible to talk about the risks that I do find scary, in the same way that it's impossible to discuss climate risk with fundamentalist Christians who think we're a decade away from the Rapture.
Fully agree.
Because, there are a lot of very real very imminent problems with AI, and none of them requires SciFi to be real.
Massive automated disinformation campaigns. Economic upheavals. Missing standards for models in mission critical applications. Copyright concerns. Problems for educational institutions. Gatekeeping mechanisms in industries.
Just to name a few. And these are not "maybe someday" problems, these exist right now, and need solving, asap. Drawing the publics attention away to doomsday scenarios out of a Hollywood movie, doesn't help any efforts in mitigating these imminent problems.