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Re:Elon Musk Says AI Is the ‘Greatest Risk We Face as a Civi... by gleenn on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:14AM (#14780935)
A lot of AI apocalists are worried about the "singularity" which is the point at which an AI could program itself and become aware and have a largely negative affect on the world.
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Re:Elon Musk Says AI Is the ‘Greatest Risk We Face as a Civi... by je42 on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:17AM (#14780951)
that's not the biggest issue.

if you have an AI that is pretty smart, and you add a lot of money, then you have a pretty big problem as since you can scale it, and let it do what you want. i.e. side stepping democratic approaches. or causing large scale unemployment.

Later, you have the selfaware-ness problem, but that's less of a concern in the shorter term.

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