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Comment by trillobyte

10 hours ago

OpenAI: "Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."

- Except the mathematicians who we'll scoop and cause existential dread among their entire field.

- Except the software developers. They'll need to become plumbers or live on UBI.

- Except the people in countries that can't afford the cost of AI tokens to keep up with the rest of the world.

Just keep picking off groups of humans for the "benefits of all humanity"... while building larger and larger disparities been the have a lots and the just have enoughs.

We're going to build humans a utopia but along the way we'll leave a trail of destruction because that's not our problem.

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td2  9 hours ago

But its normal, and good, that technologal progress creates, and destroys some jobs. Imagin a cheap, 100% reliable, self driving car would be released. Death from Traffic incidence fall by orders of magnitude

Would you argue it didnt benefit humanity, because taxi/bus drivers are nolonger required

  • trillobyte  9 hours ago

    I'm actually a AI optimist. I think it'd be great to have everybody getting around in self driving vehicles.

    If all that AI brought resulted in just taxi/bus drivers being phased out of their jobs in a thoughtful way, then that would be more manageable at the society level. But we're talking about almost all sectors of the economy.

    If the magnitude of changes that OpenAI and Athropic believe will be delivered with increasingly powerful AI (and robotics) comes in a time frame that significantly worsens a large proportion of people's lives, this is a different situation. Can super powerful AI not be developed in a way that minimizes such disruption?

  • buellerbueller  9 hours ago

    the thing with all this innovation is that it seems to be inextricably linked to rent extraction, so where is this "cheap" you speak of?

deaton  9 hours ago

They're building a utopia that nobody will live in.

  • fwlr  4 hours ago

    Nick Bostrom:

       We could imagine, as an extreme case, a technologically highly advanced society, containing many complex structures, some of them far more intricate and intelligent than anything that exists on the planet today – a society which nevertheless lacks any type of being that is conscious or whose welfare has moral significance. In a sense, this would be an uninhabited society. It would be a society of economic miracles and technological awesomeness, with nobody there to benefit. A Disneyland with no children.