Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it...
by digging on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:56PM
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All that is pretty reasonable, I appreciate your measured response.
So the fundamental disagreement is over how close we are to dangerous AI.
If you're right, we might delay useful AI by decades or centuries being overly cautious. Useful AI could either alleviate untold suffering, or it could cause untold suffering and inequality by misuse.
If I'm right, we could go extinct for lack of caution.
And given that we really don't have any way of knowing with any amount of certainty how close we are to AGI, you see why people are concerned, right? Calmly pondering feels like a serious underreaction. Vigorous, frequent, and open debate would be more appropriate. I'm not saying let's turn off all our computers for a decade.
So the fundamental disagreement is over how close we are to dangerous AI.
If you're right, we might delay useful AI by decades or centuries being overly cautious. Useful AI could either alleviate untold suffering, or it could cause untold suffering and inequality by misuse.
If I'm right, we could go extinct for lack of caution.
And given that we really don't have any way of knowing with any amount of certainty how close we are to AGI, you see why people are concerned, right? Calmly pondering feels like a serious underreaction. Vigorous, frequent, and open debate would be more appropriate. I'm not saying let's turn off all our computers for a decade.