Comment by allreduce
13 days ago
Reverting to a world without deployed AI is in fact where "normies", that is most people without capital, want to end up.
The current AI promise for them goes something like: "Oops this chittering machine will soon be able to do all you're good at and derive meaning from. But hey, at least you will end up homeless and part of a permanent underclass."
And the people building it are (rightfully) worried about it killing humanity. So why do we have to continue on this course again? An advanced society would at this point decide to pause what they are doing and reconsider.
Who, exactly, is "an advanced society" in this scenario? VCs deciding they don't like money after all? AI lab leaders and workers who spent their entire lives pursuing this dream, only to suddenly give it up because of some cultist doomers? The government growing the right combination of authoritarian and competent enough to put the tooth paste back in the tube somehow?
Like it or not, there's no going back. Wherever we end up, I guarantee you it won't be 2022.
Goverment should intervene when the few are harming the many.
We do not seem to live in an advanced society, so in the end it's going to be riots and dictatorship by AI owners or perhaps no humans in control at all. Let's hope the worst does not happen this AI cycle and we get riots and slop only...