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AI researchers and companies need to starting asking themselves: just because we can does it mean we should? The societal implications and risks of this techno

AI researchers and companies need to starting asking themselves: just because we can does it mean we should? The societal implications and risks of this technology are enormous. This could lead to an erosion of publc trust in audio and video evidence. Imagine someone creating something that gives dangerous medical advice using Fauci's likeness? Or giving the worst politicians an excuse to say that something they actually said/did was just AI generated. In the life sciences there are limits to what researchers are allowed to do. Especially with genomics. There are great opportunities for AI to do good things for humanity. We should not waste the time and effort on trivial things like this that have negative net benefits to us. Edit: spelling

elforce002 3y ago
While I agree with you, this is wishful thinking. We need regulations before things get out of hand.
- NumberWangMan 3y ago
  Yep. And that time is right now. Things are already getting out of hand, very quickly. Can we stop the ride? I'd like to get off.
deelowe 3y ago
> In the life sciences there are limits to what researchers are allowed to do. And yet we're sitting here questioning whether covid was man made and there's serious speculation human genome experimentation is active in some parts of the world... > AI researchers and companies need to starting asking themselves: just because we can does it mean we should? This just results in the researchers/countries who take the moral high road being left behind thus giving those who continue to do research a competitive advantage.
- NumberWangMan 3y ago
  I think the USA is far and away the most reckless here, and has the most funding. China is not having letting their AI labs release all the new models publicly, and in fact, our research is helping them develop it faster, since US companies are open sourcing everything. (Hey, let's develop tech more dangerous than nukes and share it!) There is no arms race, we're all in a car driving straight toward a cliff, with everyone fighting to press the gas pedal harder. We need to stop, hard.
NumberWangMan 3y ago
It's kinda way too late. The ramifications for society are going to be massive and probably pretty bad overall, not even counting the existential risk which is what I think is really going to do us in. I think there may be a path to not everyone dying, but it depends on the right people in government getting the message and taking drastic action a-la Yudkowsky's plan https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oM9pEezyCb4dCsuKq/pausing-ai-developments-isn-t-enough-we-need-to-shut-it-all-1 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oM9pEezyCb4dCsuKq/pausing-ai...
yucky 3y ago
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elforce002 3y ago

While I agree with you, this is wishful thinking. We need regulations before things get out of hand.

NumberWangMan 3y ago
Yep. And that time is right now. Things are already getting out of hand, very quickly. Can we stop the ride? I'd like to get off.

deelowe 3y ago

> In the life sciences there are limits to what researchers are allowed to do. And yet we're sitting here questioning whether covid was man made and there's serious speculation human genome experimentation is active in some parts of the world... > AI researchers and companies need to starting asking themselves: just because we can does it mean we should? This just results in the researchers/countries who take the moral high road being left behind thus giving those who continue to do research a competitive advantage.

NumberWangMan 3y ago
I think the USA is far and away the most reckless here, and has the most funding. China is not having letting their AI labs release all the new models publicly, and in fact, our research is helping them develop it faster, since US companies are open sourcing everything. (Hey, let's develop tech more dangerous than nukes and share it!) There is no arms race, we're all in a car driving straight toward a cliff, with everyone fighting to press the gas pedal harder. We need to stop, hard.

NumberWangMan 3y ago

It's kinda way too late. The ramifications for society are going to be massive and probably pretty bad overall, not even counting the existential risk which is what I think is really going to do us in. I think there may be a path to not everyone dying, but it depends on the right people in government getting the message and taking drastic action a-la Yudkowsky's plan https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oM9pEezyCb4dCsuKq/pausing-ai-developments-isn-t-enough-we-need-to-shut-it-all-1 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oM9pEezyCb4dCsuKq/pausing-ai...

yucky 3y ago

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