Re:Algorithms could increasingly influence human culture
by ben_w on Sunday May 29, 2022 @08:58AM
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Possibly. But I think unlikely.
If AI wipes out humanity[0], I suspect it will be a singular personality even if embodied in many copies, and therefore doubt it/they will any of us around in a zoo.
On the other hand, if we get The Culture (no idea how likely that might be), I suspect people will still do sociology for fun.
[0] my guesstimate is P(x-risk|AI) < 0.1, mainly because I think most of the possible AI are tools rather than agents, which reduces the risk from extinction to idiots starting wars and/or coming up with money making schemes that deplete resources before people stop them, which are bad while being well short of X-risks.
If AI wipes out humanity[0], I suspect it will be a singular personality even if embodied in many copies, and therefore doubt it/they will any of us around in a zoo.
On the other hand, if we get The Culture (no idea how likely that might be), I suspect people will still do sociology for fun.
[0] my guesstimate is P(x-risk|AI) < 0.1, mainly because I think most of the possible AI are tools rather than agents, which reduces the risk from extinction to idiots starting wars and/or coming up with money making schemes that deplete resources before people stop them, which are bad while being well short of X-risks.