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Re:Artificial intelligence risk research by threatofrain on Saturday December 12, 2015 @07:29PM (#10724849)
How are you so confident that the risks of machine learning are in the realm of science fiction? Machine learning, at least, has the plausible potential to permanently reduce demand on labor by capital owners. Undemanded laborers lose their ability to negotiate or strike as a power counterbalance to capital owners.

At the very least, that future is too complicated to form such a confident opinion that the risks of machine learning are in the realm of science fiction.

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Re:Artificial intelligence risk research by andreyf on Saturday December 12, 2015 @07:41PM (#10724881)
There are certainly changes happening (and more on the way!) as a result of a combination of Moore's Law and ML research. I don't think they are inherently significantly more risky any more than other technical advances as long as we have a chance to think about and understand them. We definitely need to think through the social implications of computers.

I think it's important to separate those real developments from the movie-plot-threat of a super-AI escaping human control.

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