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Guns, drugs and religion are not equivalent to AI. I did not say there should not be regulation or standards. The point is that the whole diagnosis is wrong.
by ilaksh 1y ago
Guns, drugs and religion are not equivalent to AI.
I did not say there should not be regulation or standards.
The point is that the whole diagnosis is wrong. People point at AI as creating a new problem as if everything was okay.
But everything is already fucked and it's not because of technology it's because of people, their social structures and beliefs. That is what we need to fix.
There are lots of ways that AI could help democracy and government in general.
- croes 1y agoAnd there a lots of ways to fuck the situation even more up. AI makes fake news in masses possible. You think the situation is bad? Let’s talk about that in 5 years.
- salawat 1y agoNone of it outweighs the harms in the hands of provably malicious governments or corporate interests. Hell, the Western ideal of Government is only truly considered tolerable given the caveat that we're constantly cycling chunks of it out, and that it never becomes so efficient and automated that it can trivially operate without the consent of the governed.