Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by AbrahamParangi on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:15AM (#35368750)

Oppenheimer at one point believed that there was some possibility the atomic bomb would set the atmosphere on fire and kill all humans. However, at least that particular fear was falsifiable. Other physicists ran calculations and concluded it was impossible.

Do these beliefs about the dangerousness of AI possess even that quality? Are they falsifiable? No.

These arguments are begging the question. They assume as a given something which cannot be disproven and thus are pure statements of belief.

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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by nopinsight on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:44AM (#35368942)

Lack of falsifiability (even if it’s true in this case, which is not a given) is not a license for inaction.

The world is not a science experiment.

And we know that it’s plausible the emergence of Homo Sapiens helped cause the extinction of Neanderthals.

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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:53PM (#35380928)

Problem is, AFAIK the math tells us rather unambiguously that AI alignment is a real problem, and safe AI is a very, very tiny point in the space of possible AIs. So it's the other way around: it's like scientists calculated six ways to Sunday that the hydrogen bomb test will ignite the atmosphere, and Oppenheimer calling it sci-fi nonsense and proceeding anyway.

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