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As the saying goes: To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
by blippage 6y ago
As the saying goes:
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
-- Paul R. Ehrlich
- tboyd47 6y agoI've come to believe the most dangerous thing in the world is an expert with a computer model.
- mtgx 6y agoYes, this is the real danger of "AI" - ignorant people using it to control society thinking the AI is the "best" at everything and fair, not that the AI will become "self-aware" and destroy us. Humans that control very powerful "AI" are much more dangerous, especially when they wrongly believe the AI's algorithms are flawless or even "much better than a human"(which a lot of people do when they get caught up in the AI hype).
- pjmorris 6y agoMaybe. I'm more worried about hundreds of thousands of amateurs with computer models (Excel spreadsheets.)
- tboyd47 6y agoI'd actually be more okay with that because their models don't influence policy.
- pjmorris 6y agoI don't see it that way; The aggregate effects of cost optimization by amateurs with spreadsheets at 100 F500 companies, 1000 mid-sized firms, 10,000 cites, 100,000 small firms has got to look a lot like policy.