If we're going to have regulation, let's regulate to protect people from real risks today.

I see all these thought leaders talking about AI safety and the end of humanity but the real problem is one that already exists. How these systems are implemented is to me the real concern and one that already exists today. What about the company that identifies drug traffickers based on street video cameras. They use the type of car along with license plates and who knows what else to tell law enforcement which cars to pull. That is concerning to me but again, I never see these thought leaders talk about. Maybe it’s too small of a problem.

Maybe I am wrong and humanity will lose the fight in the next decade. I am still not so sure we will be unable to just pull the plug.

Because the job of those thought leaders is to deflect and distract from the problems that already exist, particularly the ones that benefit the most powerful.

Pseudo-Pharoah Egypt, with a couple extremely rich people and mountains of poor laborers with no middle class.

Capitalism is ultimately about the rich being comparatively richer than other people to the maximum extent possible, because that represents actual power.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/health-insurance-humana-uni...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm...

I don’t see how it removes accountability. In the former case I believe the AI was rejecting 90% of claims, you could write `if (rand() < .9) return REJECT;` and call it AI. And nameless, faceless people deny and reject appeals electronically without even reading them.

Like all other such tools, it is now capable enough to be produced en masse and tested in the real world.

Soon enough AI will become a proxy for abuse, a convenient scapegoat. The oppression will continue.

AI does not solve a single meaningful problem for humans. And it opened a whole new can of worms.

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