There is something deeply rotten about the US mindset though, them being American is definitely a problem.
> Look at what happened with fossil fuels.
The west had a 100 years head start, on top of that these countries are producing everything you consume, don't start pointing fingers. Chinese current co2 per capita is the same as the US in 1900
Releasing artificial intelligence for the use of all of humanity is better than it being controlled by one or more shadow groups. That's what the Americans did, and the Chinese followed in.
Had AI been invented in the 20th century, it would have been kept secret and used only by state actors to facilitate genocides at mass scales. But we live in different times.
Uh? In what universe are openai and anthropic not shadow groups?
Oh, how nice of them, such charitable souls...
But if you're an angry hacker in full on culture war witch hunter mode, then of course nobody can say something that's even slightly different than full-on hate without you interpreting that as aligning with the evil witch.
How could modern AI have helped those groups you mention in their endeavour? Really fucking easy and effectively, and you don't need a lot of imagination to think of how. From surveillance and interrogation to pinpoint determination of ethnicity and much more. Not to mention translation between human languages.
They literally targeted people for their past opinions, how they looked, etc. which you can now determine and process at break neck speed, you can even remove humans from the loop and have the machine determine who's an undesirable or not.
How is this a serious question lol?
What is that “something”?
The world’s biggest philanthropists are American.
The US has for decades invested into charities and human development around the worlds .
> deregulation at all cost
The US has regulations. The Constitution of the United States is the oldest and longest-standing written and codified national constitution in force in the world.
> Christian brained politicians
We have separation of church and state.
The Sackler family of opioid infamy were huge philanthropists. Not saying that the AI companies are like Purdue Pharma, but clearly philanthropy does not compensate for societal damage.
The data does not lie.
Yeah because it includes lobbies and turbo billionaire pastors from texas using "charity" money to buy rolls royces as well as other highly retarded """charities""" that aren't even legal in the rest of the developed world
You have senators and wannabe senators quoting the bible on TV as their guiding star as we speak right now, give me a break
On top of that you can separate the church and the state all you want, when people like Thiel show up it doesn't matter, these people are deeply troubled, if they were muslim and saying 1/10th of what he says you'd send them to guantanamo
Doing what? Rushing to make trillion dollar companies, rather then developing the tech and their companies in a sustainable way? I don't even know what in the original comment this would be a response to.
The particular form of the pursuit of power practiced by OAI and Antrophic - the creation of trillion dollar companies, is one of the most benign in human history. It's so unnaturally benign, that I doubt it's going to survive for much longer.
Political power is when people act in concert, when leaders have people behind them because those people agree with how they're being lead etc., it's not something that happens unilaterally. You can physically force people, but for what when you can have robots that you don't have to force?
So that kind of leaves wiping out nearly all humans, for a few hundred thousand remaining people to get served by robots and play golf. Which I would say is what we're kinda on track for. But that wouldn't be a race between nations, that race would just be pretend to get the tech online; it would rather be a race between all humans and a bunch of sick people.
AI doesn't have to be used offensively to give a nation power. The machines can already design new software at the drop of the hat, it will at some point become capable of designing new consumer products and industrial products. Putting a tireless intelligence at the task of looking for new optimizations in your industrial processes and factories will eventually give you economic dominance, one way or another.
Offensive uses don't need to be as extreme as you imagine them. We're already starting to see the effects of having meticulous automated hackers.
Finally, political power itself doesn't need to come from people acting in concert. There's always been wheeling and dealing and intrigue and bureaucracy. Once AI is sufficiently versed in legal matters, it'd allow political interest groups to overwhelm governments and private enterprises with objections and appeals, paralyzing their ability to carry out their agenda until they make concessions.
The possibilities of using intelligence for acquiring more power are literally endless..
That doesn't mean that everyone has to use to use it.
We're only starting to see the beginning of the negative impact of AI to the job market and society. If if turns out that allowing most jobs to be replaced by AI is bad for society and the economy (super high unemployment - nobody buying more then necessities), then wouldn't it be smarter to not do that?
If that's the case, then each country can decide for themselves.
Dario's "Machines of loving grace" UBI/foodstamp "utopia" sure doesn't sound like a recipe for success.
If it weren’t OAI and Anthropic, it would be others.
If it weren’t US companies, it would be others.
It is far too useful now to stop large scale deployment, it isn’t a matter of specific people or countries not being cautious or prudent enough. The entirety of the Earth is at issue now and there will always be people who cause the tragedy of the commons (if indeed AI turns out to be harmful in the long run, which is not remotely certain).
Look at what happened with fossil fuels.