Comment by geraneum
4 hours ago
The AI perhaps wouldn't be such an "imminent threat" if not for wealth inequality, consolidation of power, monopoly, and the opaqueness of it all.
4 hours ago
The AI perhaps wouldn't be such an "imminent threat" if not for wealth inequality, consolidation of power, monopoly, and the opaqueness of it all.
I think that mainly changes the nature of the threat rather than anything else.
Even if we didn't already have any wealth inequality or consolidated power, they're already starting to become capable of creating those things for the first people to think to ask for it. Even in little ways, like telling you how to make a laser microphone and then doing voice-to-text and sentiment analysis on all the voices you hear.
Remember, we had social networks before Zuckerberg monetised it and put ads in between every third message you saw from your friends; and not every third that they wrote, every third that Zuckerberg's ad system deigned to show you to keep you hooked.
We had machine learning systems even back then. It was still AI, it just wasn't able to evaluate or respond to freeform text.