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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by kubanczyk on Saturday November 04, 2023 @06:02PM (#38145643)
> If your AI is only allowed to give tasks to employees

It can tell an employee to send an email, or to meet someone, or to transfer funds. That's a clear way to lobby the legislature, and in effect influence some new laws.

That took me 3 minutes of thinking, and I'm not a superhuman.

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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by brutusborn on Saturday November 04, 2023 @10:32PM (#38147502)
I wouldn’t class that as malicious. Companies do the exact same thing without AI. I’m trying to tease out what the diff is between a human manager who gives out tasks, and the AI. And how this diff could result in risks.
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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by kubanczyk on Sunday November 05, 2023 @03:56AM (#38149452)
Ah, I see. You are assuming that there's an universal growth rate limit.

A diff between a human manager and their human parent generation cannot be on the order of diff between a tortoise and a chimp. AI is not constrained by biological evolution.

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