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Seems like no one writing this article noticed the drone war going on in Ukraine right now. I'm a lot less worried about industrial accidents, and a lot more w
by blagie 3y ago
Seems like no one writing this article noticed the drone war going on in Ukraine right now.
I'm a lot less worried about industrial accidents, and a lot more worried about the path of military accidents. Drones /will/ outpilot human pilots, and AIs /will/ out-strategize humans. That's inevitable at this point. Bugs will creep in too, as will cyberattacks.
In a war, no one will have time to dive into AI ethics, let alone capacity to apply them.
- solardev 3y agoI'm less worried about strategic robots than an ape species that kills each other with machetes and gas chambers for no real reason. It's not even a bug in our case. Willful genocide is a feature as old as our ancestors (and then some). Maybe the AI will at least use modern, quick-killing weapons.
- blagie 3y agoI'm less worried about machetes since they can't kill the whole human population. Even something as horrific as gas chambers only killed a fraction of a percent of the world population. Genocide is ancient, but humanity somehow stumbles on as a species. I'm more worried because we developed technology capable of wipe out all of humanity (and potentially, all life on Earth) in the fifties with thermonuclear bombs. The number of potentially humanity-destroying technologies has grown exponentially since, and with biological weapons, the cost and complexity has fallen. I can think of directions to take humanity to take extermination off-the-table, but we don't seem able to implement big changes anymore.
- hindsightbias 3y agoWhen bombs kill the wrong people now it’s never called a human error, it’s an “errant” bomb. I’d sumbit AI bombs will be less errant than their humans who are not accountable.