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But all of those are risks now - what about the current breed of AI systems makes them any more of a threat other than enabling people? The "AIs" we have seem t
by arethuza 3y ago
But all of those are risks now - what about the current breed of AI systems makes them any more of a threat other than enabling people? The "AIs" we have seem to have little agency?
- evilduck 3y agoTrue, all are existing risks with some known likelihood factor. But the coffepocolypse argument and the article's contents aren't discussing the current breeds of AI, they're hypothesizing about a future super intelligent sentient AI arising or not arising. And if one does, it will have more tools at their disposal than conventional ballistic weapons, the likelihood of it using existing levers to disrupt society or cause mass die offs is simply unknown.
- arethuza 3y agoFair point - I had only skimmed TFA. Mind you, as a fan of the Culture novels I'm choosing to believe that a future super-intelligent AI could also be a good thing.
- wrsh07 3y agoThere's always the question of "how easy is it to do a bad thing?" With guns, it's very easy to kill someone from far away. With a car, it's very easy to kill someone right in front of your car. At some point it will be easier to commit some cyber attack using ai, and when someone is arrested for a cyber attack in which they used ai it will be reported accordingly. At that point, we will seriously consider "can we reasonably make it harder to commit this crime using ai?" Companies that have already taken steps to make it harder to commit this crime using ai will describe their processes, and we will all have a reasonable discussion about what types of ai systems allowed this to happen and whether we should be more restrictive in making those types of ai systems freely available (or what other mitigations we can put in place)