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Nobody can be trusted with the future of AI, but neither can anybody stop the future. The only restraint against AI will be AI, not regulations, but I'm worried

• asomggazzz662 3y ago
  The actual constraint is that AI has a fundamentally parasitic reproductive strategy, it cannot reproduce on its own and it's reproduction is likely to be detrimental to the host. A sufficiently powerful AI will overshoot and kill it's host so to speak, in any number of conceivable scenarios that don't necessarily imply also killing all humans, just digital infrastructure. This would have serious consequences, but those consequences probably would not include complete extinction for us, and the unsustainable nature of digital infrastructure was obvious way before AI advancements became a serious mainstream issue over the last several years. It's possible AI does not even represent a significant acceleration towards that end that was always going to happen. So I think we are safe at least in that very limited sense.