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 mcguire on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:31PM (#36155331)

No, I'm suggesting the entire hype over "superintelligence" is religious in nature. There is little evidence that the current AI systems are anywhere near human intelligence and none that "more than human intelligence" is possible. Further, the abilities attributed to the "superintelligence" are completely godlike---it's omniscient and omnipotent, right? Nothing it can't do, potentially?

So, if you're not worried about the extinction risk of God, why should you be concerned with the risk of "superintelligence"?

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by MrScruff on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:57AM (#36184362)

I'm not sure I see the religious aspect.

It's more of an inevitable consequence (over an unknown timeline, granted) of the assumption that human intelligence is not some kind of absolute limit, and can be reproduced in a non-biological system. I admit that is still an assumption, but the opposite seems harder to support to me, though we're all admittedly guessing here.

Once you make that assumption, then yes of course it follows that the 'beyond human intelligence' would be able to do all of the things that human intelligence is already doing. Namely, science, mathematics, developing AI systems etc.

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