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The issue is not that caution is warranted or not, it's that it's cynically used by Sam Altman to increase the value of his company. I don't trust a silicon va
by l33tman 3y ago
The issue is not that caution is warranted or not, it's that it's cynically used by Sam Altman to increase the value of his company.
I don't trust a silicon valley rich guy with this more than I trust anybody else. Why should he sit and decide what the rest of us can't do, while he's getting richer? That is what the article is about..
- bbor 3y agoGetting angry about one guy getting rich is silly in comparison to the serious threats presented by sudden AGI. Did all the other guys in Silicon Valley (or Wall Street, or Monaco, or Dubai) get rich in a justifiable fair way? I agree that big companies/capitalists using their power to suppress the rest of us sucks, but that’s a systemic political battle that should be considered separately here.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoIt's a systemic political battle, and the only reason anyone's talking about banning AI. They're only luddites when it benefits them, personally, in the here and now. Parroting their silly fearmongering tactics "What if THE MATRIX, guys?!" is just giving them more power. Ludditry is just cowardice, specifically focused on the fear of change. Want to know a realistic worse case scenario for AI development? The same rich assholes that are rich today invest in developing AI tech to the point that the market value for human labor plummets to an unlivable point, and class mobility subsequently goes to zero. THAT's a doomsday scenario, and it's made ever more likely by stupid claims that only our Silicon Valley Immortal Philosopher-Kings are worthy of control over AI.