AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype

Re:AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-... by version_five on Saturday August 12, 2023 @07:20AM (#37099035)

I'm much more concerned about this kind of thinking which I hope it reflects the HN bubble and not the world generally. Particularly the conflation of something happening as part of a computer program with the real world. As well as the fallacy of "something bad could be invented and even though I don't understand how or see any path to it, I'll pretend current unrelated technology is related and fearmonger about it." This seems to be an education issue.

It confuses me how if people speculate about some stuff, say vaccine or disease research, and suggest that it could lead to something bad, they're conspiracy theorists or deniers or whatever (possibly with reason). But if someone literally just makes up some "terminator bad" nonsense based on their own ignorance there's some hushed reverence.

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Re:AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-... by scott-smith_us on Saturday August 12, 2023 @03:46PM (#37103587)

You're mischaracterizing the concern, I think. I agree with you about Luddite alarmism based upon ignorance. This (the concerns voiced by many leading researchers in the field of AI) absolutely isn't that, I promise you.

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Re:AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-... by tegmark on Saturday August 12, 2023 @06:28PM (#37104785)

youre wrong and its because you are having an emotional block. you cant accept something like that. you decided that it couldn't be true as soon as you saw the conclusion and have never been able to see clearly the chain of reason leading to that conclusion. if youre so confident that youre right, then have a friendly debate with me on twitter spaces or another real time platform. even a coffee shop.

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