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First, I was surprised about the idea that there must be an exact description of dangers before someone can investigate the dangers and consider them. So I was
by rnk 4y ago
First, I was surprised about the idea that there must be an exact description of dangers before someone can investigate the dangers and consider them. So I was raising the issue of nukes as obviously dangerous, ai less so, we can consider the dangers of AI or anything in the abstract.
I do see AI as very dangerous though. My personal belief is we'll build AGI, every country will have some of their own. Now consider the next war US versus China say or Russia, people will be doing everything possible to win. Eventually we'll make AI controlled robots or weapons that don't have human controls.
There's a less dangerous, but still incredibly destructive problem of AI, propaganda, fake information, photos, etc, becoming ever more capable of making influential damaging fake news. The US is already suffering under this without AI, 1/3 of the people believe things that aren't true about the election, science, etc. Multiply that by 100 and a worse problem occurs.
- rendall 4y ago> First, I was surprised about the idea that there must be an exact description of dangers before someone can investigate the dangers and consider them. Of course there has to be a description of dangers before someone can consider them, otherwise how do we evaluate risk? How else do we know whether we are overreacting? It's not like the "ruin" people suddenly woke up yesterday morning in a panic. They have been talking about this for years. In all that time, there has been no dispassionate but thorough analysis of the dangers?