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This could end up going very dangerously for the planet depending on how these AIs are set up with their incentives. If the neoconservatives who run the world s
by asdff 3y ago
This could end up going very dangerously for the planet depending on how these AIs are set up with their incentives. If the neoconservatives who run the world set up these models to their own benefit, we are probably going to be doomed with a dead planet in a few centuries. Imagine if they were set up to go for profitability above all else as a capitalist would expect. The planet would be destroyed before long. Newly identified resources will be squandered as quickly as possible for short term gains realized in a single investors lifetime, over considering long term health of the planet which likely means not prioritizing quarterly profits and leaving behind some fruit on the tree so to speak. An AI might be used to more easily make what would be coldhearted or uncomfortable decisions for a person, like deciding what communities are the most profitable to invest in versus considering which might require the most need (which probably means sacrificing profitability to pay more costs).
However, if the AIs were set up to incentivize collective good over short term profit taking for well leveraged individuals, then this could be a revolution in terms of work/leisure time for the masses, akin to what past philosophers must have expected from us in a future with more available resources and a lessened need for labor.