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Many technologies can lead to physical harm by your standard. Cyberbullying can lead to suicide, but presumably you aren't worried about Discord and Twitter the

Many technologies can lead to physical harm by your standard. Cyberbullying can lead to suicide, but presumably you aren't worried about Discord and Twitter the same way. Moreover, would you have locked down social media with such safety regulations while it was in its infancy? Require a license to use Livejournal Social harms are real, but it seems implausible to me that ChatGPT could do much more psychological damage than a bully on Instagram. Also, heavy regulation tends to lead to regulatory capture. I don't trust any centralized entity with something this powerful.

phkahler 4y ago
>> I don't trust any centralized entity with something this powerful. But then how can you trust the companies that make them? ;-) Groups of people self governing is an ancient and hard problem!
actionfromafar 4y ago
Perhaps. Bullies don't scale, AI does.
gnramires 4y ago
> Cyberbullying can lead to suicide, but presumably you aren't worried about Discord and Twitter the same way I think we have already safety mechanisms for human interaction: (1) We have human ethics, where we teach good values in school, and also parents are expected to relay good values; (2) We have laws and mechanisms to improve safety and responsibility -- bullying has consequences for the bully if found out. I think we need at least similar systems in AI. That's not to say they're ideal however. In fact, because we have full control over the creation of AI, i.e. we want to the position of Gods, we have extra responsibility. Literally how their mind is architectured is up to us, it's up to us to imbue things like compassion that most humans have instinctively, and up to us to imbue things like values and ethics that we have adopted culturally. From Orbital's "You Lot": "You are becoming Gods There's a new master of creation, and it's you (...) D'you think you are ready for that much power? You lot? You lot? (...) Go on, hands up, hands up anyone who thinks you've got it right Yeah, there's always one I can see you If you want the position of God, then you must accept the responsibility"

phkahler 4y ago

>> I don't trust any centralized entity with something this powerful. But then how can you trust the companies that make them? ;-) Groups of people self governing is an ancient and hard problem!

actionfromafar 4y ago

Perhaps. Bullies don't scale, AI does.

gnramires 4y ago

> Cyberbullying can lead to suicide, but presumably you aren't worried about Discord and Twitter the same way I think we have already safety mechanisms for human interaction: (1) We have human ethics, where we teach good values in school, and also parents are expected to relay good values; (2) We have laws and mechanisms to improve safety and responsibility -- bullying has consequences for the bully if found out. I think we need at least similar systems in AI. That's not to say they're ideal however. In fact, because we have full control over the creation of AI, i.e. we want to the position of Gods, we have extra responsibility. Literally how their mind is architectured is up to us, it's up to us to imbue things like compassion that most humans have instinctively, and up to us to imbue things like values and ethics that we have adopted culturally. From Orbital's "You Lot": "You are becoming Gods There's a new master of creation, and it's you (...) D'you think you are ready for that much power? You lot? You lot? (...) Go on, hands up, hands up anyone who thinks you've got it right Yeah, there's always one I can see you If you want the position of God, then you must accept the responsibility"