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To anyone who says we can just flip the off switch on AIs who go rogue: where exactly is the off switch to capitalism, or corporations, or global supply chains,
by lukifer 3y ago
To anyone who says we can just flip the off switch on AIs who go rogue: where exactly is the off switch to capitalism, or corporations, or global supply chains, or industrialized agriculture, or social media, or the State?
AIs aren't a new phenomenon: we've been co-evolving with them for millennia, for both good and ill. The new more powerful iterations ("vast arrays of inscrutable floating-point matrices") are nested in those previous memetic life forms (corporations in particular [0]); and once something becomes infrastructure (and/or an income stream to some subset of humanity), it becomes non-trivial, if not impossible, to turn off.
[0] https://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-soaking-in-it.html https://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre...