Comment by largbae
20 hours ago
The signatories of this (letter, petition, whatever) are the same folks who profit from creating this Pandora's Box. If you don't want it opened, stop making it?
20 hours ago
The signatories of this (letter, petition, whatever) are the same folks who profit from creating this Pandora's Box. If you don't want it opened, stop making it?
There are other valid use cases than war for AI.
Of course there are. But once it exists, a technology will be used for all purposes. The choice is in the making, anything else is virtue signaling.
One second, I have to go turn my stove off. It could be used to start a forest fire.
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Very few. Most use is a pure negative for society.
War will be a comparatively honest use of this technology compared to how the likes of Google will monetize it going forward.
Then start your own company where you control the direction of the products. All these people make millions and only speak up after they are set for life.
I’m torn. On the one hand it’s nice that the rank and file take a stand against extreme overreach. On the other hand these rank and file scientists, engineers, whatever are fostering a technology which has so many at-best questionable effects on all of society.
Idealists who “genuinely”[1] want to change the world “for the better”[1] will just move on to the next Interesting Problem if it ends up making the world worse.
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179649