Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society

Re:Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society by keiferski on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:22PM (#26810186)

That’s a different question. Even if you think certain technologies are overall negative, you may be forced to adopt them in order to remain competitive with other nation states. Nuclear weapons are probably the classic example here. AI seems similar to me.

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Re:Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society by quotemstr on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:31PM (#26810302)

Nuclear weapons are a huge net positive for humanity. Have we had another big industrial war since WWII? No. Why not? Because the combatants understand that nowadays total war means total annihilation. Now we resolve our disputes in other ways. Nuclear weapons gave us an age of peace.

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Re:Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society by thoughtstheseus on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:45PM (#26810497)

There’s a survivorship bias here. If nuclear weapons did totally annihilate society we could not have this conversation.

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Re:Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society by kube-system on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:48PM (#26810536)

Their point is that anyone who can develop a nuclear weapon also is aware of this. It might be a survivorship bias, but it is also self-fulfilling.

The biggest threat, as I can see it, is a truly irrational actor. Luckily they're hard enough to build that this prerequisite has so far filtered out anyone truly irrational.

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