Comment by lf88
5 hours ago
AI progress is linked to most of these dangers, actually: - it will likely cause massive unemployment, leading to rampant wealth inequality - we are now seeing some use of autonomous weapons in real conflicts - increasingly relying on LLMs is arguably a form of technology dependence (and cognitive dependence) - datacenters have a non negligible environmental impact
I agree these dangers are connected. The danger comes from human institutions and incentive structures which (having existed long before now) are being exploited and exacerbated by LLMs, making them harder to ignore.