Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario

Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by RandomLensman on Thursday November 02, 2023 @12:33PM (#38116086)

I don't agree with the uniqueness of AI risk. A large asteroid impacting earth is a non-hypothetical existential risk presently out of our control. We do not currently plan on spending trillions to have a comprehensive early detection system and equipment to control that risk.

The differentiating thing here is that blocking hypothetical AI risk is cheap, while mitigating real risks is expensive.

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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by cma on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:22PM (#38118666)

We have a decent grasp of the odds of an asteroid extinction event in a way that we don't for AI.

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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by RandomLensman on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:53PM (#38119094)

And that makes taking that extinction risk everyday better?

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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by cma on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:07PM (#38120164)

How do we not take it every day?

We can work on it in the long term and things like developing safe AI may have more impact on mitigating asteroid risk than working on scaling up existing nuclear, rocket, and observation tech to tackle it.

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