Re:Statement on AI Risk
by pixl97 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:32AM
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I would put consolidating and increasing corporate and or government power on that list of potential visible very short term issues.
As AI becomes more incorporated in military applications, such as individual weapon systems, or large fleets of autonomous drones then the catastrophic consequence meter clicks up a notch in the sense that attack/defense paradigms change, much like they did in WWI with the machine gun and tanks, and in WWII with high speed military operations and airplanes. Our predictive ability on when/what will start a war lowers increasing uncertainty and potential proliferation. An in a world with nukes, higher uncertainty isn't a good thing.
Anyone that says AI can't/won't cause problems at this scale just ignores that individuals/corporations/governments are power seeking entities. Ones that are very greedy and unaligned with the well being of the individual can present huge risks. How we control these risks without creating other systems that are just as risky is going to be an interesting problem.
As AI becomes more incorporated in military applications, such as individual weapon systems, or large fleets of autonomous drones then the catastrophic consequence meter clicks up a notch in the sense that attack/defense paradigms change, much like they did in WWI with the machine gun and tanks, and in WWII with high speed military operations and airplanes. Our predictive ability on when/what will start a war lowers increasing uncertainty and potential proliferation. An in a world with nukes, higher uncertainty isn't a good thing.
Anyone that says AI can't/won't cause problems at this scale just ignores that individuals/corporations/governments are power seeking entities. Ones that are very greedy and unaligned with the well being of the individual can present huge risks. How we control these risks without creating other systems that are just as risky is going to be an interesting problem.