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AI could be civilization-ending. Pretty much everything we do involves trust in others. Things like vaccine hesitancy can become worse to the point that people
by gcanyon 4y ago
AI could be civilization-ending. Pretty much everything we do involves trust in others. Things like vaccine hesitancy can become worse to the point that people make increasingly life-threatening decisions. With AI-generated disinformation at scale fully able to drown out actual vetted information, it's possible we'll end up in an environment where even reasonable people simply don't know what decisions to make. Voting becomes problematic. Where to live, what products to buy, what to study, what job to take, all become difficult or impossible to decide intelligently.
I hope I'm wrong.
- commandlinefan 4y ago> all become difficult or impossible to decide intelligently The solution is for people to learn to reason logically for themselves. Maybe when we actually get to the point where people can't survive until they do so, they'll start taking logical reasoning seriously.
- gcanyon 4y agoHow does reasoning logically based on potentially unreliable information produce accurate, beneficial results? Especially when it's impossible to know the specific probability any given piece of information is true?