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No AI is more dangerous to society than mass ethnically motivated hatred. The cruelty of the human population is racing ahead much faster than AI.
by tboyd47 9y ago
No AI is more dangerous to society than mass ethnically motivated hatred. The cruelty of the human population is racing ahead much faster than AI.
- ravenstine 9y agoHow?
- tboyd47 9y agoThe Rohingya crisis comes to mind. I can't think of another time in my life I've heard of a million people being ejected from their own country in less than a year. It's not worse than the Holocaust (although maybe it would be if you look at rate instead of sum), but this is supposed to be peacetime. The army didn't need AI for that; it just needed to hand out weapons and give the order. And let's not even discuss the actual stories the refugees are telling. What's going on in Congo is probably even worse, but we don't hear about it, yet the numbers of refugees are comparable. Stuff like that is what worries me in 2018. Not AI.
- ralusek 9y agoIs this like an annual resolution where we just choose one thing to be worried about?
- NoGravitas 9y agoHow about AI used as a force multiplier for mass ethnically motivated hatred? Say, an AR app with face recognition connected to social media and government records to identify members of $HATED_ETHNIC_GROUP?
- tboyd47 9y agoIt doesn't require deep learning or AR to know what race a person is. What's stopping militaries and police around the world from carrying out large-scale ethnic cleansing already? We act like we (techies) are the ones who enable states to carry out these atrocities by inventing gadgets, but they really don't need our gadgets. If they don't have drones and AI, they can do the same thing with machetes and walkie-talkies.