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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by rurp on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @04:26PM (#43029938)
This happens in many ways with potentially catastrophic tech. There are many formal agreements and strong norms against building ever more lethal nuclear arsenals or existentially dangerous gain of function research. The current system is far from perfect, the world could literally be destroyed today based on the actions of a handful of people, but it's the best we have come up with so far.

If we as a society keep developing potential existential threats to ourselves without mitigating them then we are destined for disaster eventually.

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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by realce on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:28PM (#43030451)
John C Lilly had a concept called the "bad program" that was like an internal, natural, subconscious antithetical force that lives in us all. It seduces or lures the individual into harming themselves one way or another - in his case it "tricked" him into taking a vitamin injection improperly, leading to a stroke, even though he knew how to administer the shot expertly.

At some level, there's a disaster-seeking function inside us all acting as an evolutionary propellant.

You might make an argument that "AI" is an evolutionary embodiment of our conscious minds that's designed to escape these more subconscious trappings.

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