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Re:OpenAI No Longer Takes Safety Seriously by mapmeld on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:06PM (#40443369)
Job loss for knowledge workers, especially affecting intro jobs (I'm thinking of frontend dev or paralegal work, which is how a lot of people get a foothold in these fields). What are reasonable degrees to take out a college loan for in 2024?

Militaries using AI checkpoints, guards, patrols, and loitering munitions (from a Humanitarian / rules of war perspective, not necessarily existential risk). Possibly to continue regimes where human soldiers would defect or differentiate civilians from armed opponents.

AI-reinforced media bubbles promoting alternative realities (most people blame this on social media, but from QAnonCasualties it seems like YouTube and Facebook recommendations hooked a lot of people before mainstream companies assessed whether they could be harmful). I think this is more core than "deepfakes" because people believe even fake Tweet screenshots if it backs the narrative.

Re:OpenAI No Longer Takes Safety Seriously by zer00eyz on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @05:44PM (#40447018)
>> What are reasonable degrees to take out a college loan for in 2024?

What degree do you take in college in 2004? How about 1960? Because realistically there are a lot of people who got degrees in what amounts to underwater basket weaving and are upset that there isnt a place for the in the work force already. I dont think foreknowlge would change peoples poor choices!

> Militaries using AI checkpoints, guards, patrols, and loitering munitions

This ship sailed: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/17/missile-full-...

> QAnonCasualties it seems like YouTube and Facebook

As an atheist, people stoped going to church, talking about Bigfoot and put their bullshit elsewhere... IN my book the new boss is the same as the old boss, just on a different pulpit.