Comment by EGreg
3 days ago
Would you say the same about all people being responsible for safeguarding their own reputations against reputational attacks at scale, all communities have to protect against advanced persistent threats infiltrating them 24/7, and all people’s immune systems have to protect against designer pathogens by AI-assisted terrorists?
I think our full understanding of the spectrum of these threats will lead to the construction of robust safeguards against them. Reputational attacks at scale are a weakness of the current platforms within which we consume news, form community, and build trust. Computer attacks described in the article are caused by sloppy design/implementation brought into existence by folks whose daily incentives are less about making safe code and more about delivering features. "Designer pathogens" have been described as an accessible form of terrorism since far before AI has existed. All of these threats and similar have existed since before AI, and will continue to exist if AI is snapped out of existence right now. The excuse for not preventing/addressing them has always been about knowledge and development resources, which current generative AI tech addresses.