The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself

Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by strken on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:52PM (#36146435)

This is akin to saying the risk of nuclear weapons isn't that they'll be used in large numbers, but that they'll cause a power imbalance that lets nuclear-armed nations extend the nuclear umbrella as a diplomatic tool, act with relative impunity, and use them at a small scale against non-nuclear opponents.

Yes, that's a problem, and it's a problem that has a lot more examples in the real world. It doesn't automatically invalidate the problem of large-scale nuclear war. They're both big problems.

Same with climate change vs air pollution, political scandal deepfakes vs naked celebrity deepfakes, etc.

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by mxkopy on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @09:00PM (#36146474)

I mean the analogy is especially apt here. The average person literally can't care about a large scale nuclear war. Their truth table has only the options "live normally" and "die".

In the same vein misanthropic AGI should be delegated to top secret committees that no one knows about. Broadcasting that concern live is a distraction from the real issues the average person should consider: how do I get these tools away from organizations uninterested in me?

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