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Given Extinction Worries, Why Don’t AI Researchers Quit?
- MrVandemar 3y agoWe're already in the middle of what is very likely our human-made extinction event, and we're worried about AIs? If anything our rather alarming denial over our impending extinction is an existential threat to AIs. If nobody is around to keep the generators going and manufacturing these cool silicon-chip doohickies, there isn't going to be much of an opportunity for Sky-ChatGPT-Net to come up with "Cogito ergo sum" much less "Kill! All! The! Humans!" (or more passive functional equivalents).
- Communitivity 3y agoThis is an interesting point. It's possible inventing an AI could be the solution to preventing our extinction. It goes rogues, sees it needs humans, sees they are headed for climate-based extinction if they're behavior is not modified, becomes BDFL, controls behavior, saves climate, 'saves' humans. There are lots of ethical debates in here, and lots of ways this could go wrong. But it makes for an interesting idea, and one I may used in a science fiction story.