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If you can scan city schematics, maps, learn about civil and structural engineering through various textbooks and plot a subway bombing in an afternoon, you're
by unethical_ban 3y ago
If you can scan city schematics, maps, learn about civil and structural engineering through various textbooks and plot a subway bombing in an afternoon, you're a faster learner than I am.
Let me be clear: everyone in the world is about to have a Jarvis/Enterprise ship's computer/Data/name-your-assistant available to them, but ready and willing to use their power for nefarious purposes. It is not just a matter of reading books. It lowers the barrier on a lot of things, good and bad, significantly.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoCrimes are crimes the person commits. Planning an attack is a crime. Building a model to commit crimes is probably akin to planning an attack, and might itself be a crime. But the thought that researchers and the every man have to be kept away from AI so globo mega corps can protect us from the AI enabled Lex Luthor is absurd. The protections against criminal activity is already codified in law.
- tomrod 3y ago> It lowers the barrier on a lot of things, good and bad, significantly. Like books!
- unethical_ban 3y agoYes, I understand your analogy. I am not endorsing restrictions. I was merely stating the fact that this shit is coming down the pipe, and it /will/ be destabilizing, and just because society survived the printing press doesn't mean the age of AI will be safe or easy.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoBut at least Alexa will be able to order ten rolls of toilet paper instead of ten million reams of printer paper
- selimthegrim 3y agoFor a minute there I misread Jarvis as Jarvik