Re:The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
by lukifer on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:57AM
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To anyone who says we can just flip the off switch on AIs who go rogue: where exactly is the off switch to capitalism, or corporations, or global supply chains, or industrialized agriculture, or social media, or the State?
AIs aren't a new phenomenon: we've been co-evolving with them for millennia, for both good and ill. The new more powerful iterations ("vast arrays of inscrutable floating-point matrices") are nested in those previous memetic life forms (corporations in particular [0]); and once something becomes infrastructure (and/or an income stream to some subset of humanity), it becomes non-trivial, if not impossible, to turn off.
AIs aren't a new phenomenon: we've been co-evolving with them for millennia, for both good and ill. The new more powerful iterations ("vast arrays of inscrutable floating-point matrices") are nested in those previous memetic life forms (corporations in particular [0]); and once something becomes infrastructure (and/or an income stream to some subset of humanity), it becomes non-trivial, if not impossible, to turn off.
[0] https://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre...