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I agree, because when I see people talk in popular media/blog posts/etc. about "AI Safety" I generally see it in reference to 4 very different areas: 1. AI tha
by hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
I agree, because when I see people talk in popular media/blog posts/etc. about "AI Safety" I generally see it in reference to 4 very different areas:
1. AI that becomes so powerful it decides to turn against humanity, Terminator-style.
2. AI will serve to strongly reinforce existing societal biases from its training data.
3. AI can be used for wide-scale misinformation campaigns, making it difficult for most people to tell fact from fiction.
4. AI will fundamentally "break capitalism" given that it will make most of humanity's labor obsolete, and most people get nearly all of their income from their labor, and we haven't yet figured out realistically how to have a "post capitalist" society.
My issue is that when "the big guns" (I mean OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc.) talk about AI safety, they are usually always talking about #1 or #2, maybe #3, and hardly ever #4. I think that the most harmful, realistic negative effects are actually the reverse, with #4 being the most likely and already beginning to happen in some areas, and #3 already happening pre-AI and just getting "supercharged" in an AI world.