Indeed, an epistemological crisis seems to be the most realistic problem in the next few years.
Re:Statement on AI Risk
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:04PM
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That risk isn't about AI-as-AI. That risk is about AI-as-better-persuasive-nonsense-generator. But the same risk is there for any better-persuasive-nonsense-generator, completely independent from whether it's an AI.
It's the most persuasive actual risk I've seen so far, but it's not an AI-specific risk.
Effective dystopian mass-manipulation and monitoring are a real concern and we're closer to it[1] than to super intelligence. But super-intelligence going wrong is almost incomparably worse. So we should very much worry about it as well.
[1] I'm not even sure any further big breakthroughs in AI are needed, i.e. just effective utilization of existing architectures probably already suffices.
The problem is not science fiction god-mode digital quetta-smart hypercomputing.
This is about political, social, and economic influence, and who controls it.