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> It doesn't have interests, thoughts and feelings. Why does it need these things to make the following statement true? > if we grant these systems too much p
by groestl 4y ago
> It doesn't have interests, thoughts and feelings.
Why does it need these things to make the following statement true?
> if we grant these systems too much power, they could do serious harm
- bhhaskin 4y agoBecause it does not and cannot act on it's own. It's a neat tool and nothing more at this point. Context to that statement is important, because the OP is implying that it is dangerous because it could act in a way that dose not align with human interests. But it can't because it does not act on it's own.
- groestl 4y ago"if we grant these systems too much power"
- bhhaskin 4y agoYou can say that about anything. "If we grant these calculators too much power"
- jjkaczor 4y agoOr the people that rely on the tools to make decisions... https://sheetcast.com/articles/ten-memorable-excel-disasters https://sheetcast.com/articles/ten-memorable-excel-disasters
- Dylan16807 4y agoHow is a calculator going to cause harm? Assuming you get an industrially rated circuit board when appropriate, it should work just fine as a PLC. If you try to make it drive a car, I wouldn't call that a problem of giving it too much power.
- lxgr 4y agoYes, and it's not as absurd as it might seem: Imagine hooking up all ICBMs to launch whenever this week's Powerball draw consists exclusively of prime numbers: Absurd, and nobody would do it. Now imagine hooking them up to the output of a "complex AI trained on various scenarios and linked to intelligence sources including public news and social media sentiment" instead – in order to create a credible second-strike/dead hand capability or whatnot. I'm pretty sure the latter doesn't sound as absurd as the former to quite a few people... A system doesn't need to be "true AI" to be existentially dangerous to humanity.
- wizofaus 4y agoI'd say by far our biggest problem for the foreseeable future is granting other humans too much power.
- lstodd 4y agoOne way to grant those systems an ability to act is to rely excessively or at all on them while making decisions. It's obvious, no?
- DonHopkins 4y agoHow about rephrasing that, to not anthropomorphize AI by giving it agency, intent, interests, thoughts, or feelings, and to assign the blame where it belongs: "If we grant these systems too much power, we could do ourselves serious harm."