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That's exactly what I'm shouting about. AI is way bigger than trains that replaced wagons. AI, combined with Robotics, has the potential to touch EVERY CAREER o

That's exactly what I'm shouting about. AI is way bigger than trains that replaced wagons. AI, combined with Robotics, has the potential to touch EVERY CAREER out there, and has the potential to touch many careers REALLY QUICK. I pledge -- no, I beg everyone in the AI domain to stop improving AI models and integrating AI with internal data. It's OK-ish to just use AI for personal stuffs, but training AI for a specific company? Not a good idea for whoever works there. Combining robotics and AI to replace low-salary workers? Why? I don't really think we know the consequences of further improvement on AI. AI today is not a big issue -- it won't replace most careers -- worst case it improves productivity and removes the need to hire more workers, but I believe none of us really know how good AI is going to be. We really need a globally political consensus to regulate and use AI. I don't really have high hope though. I look forward to a dystopian future, maybe even worse than what we saw in the movies.

e1g 1y ago
Is there a form of this argument that could not be made leading up to the Industrial Revolution? Approximately 60-80% of pre-industrial ways of making a living disappeared or required complete reskilling. Does anyone seriously think we should’ve stopped progress that led to the Industrial Revolution?
- griblack 1y ago
  Just a simple example: compare an atomic bomb with the type of bomb from the Industrial Revolution. Today the scale and speed of change is unparalleled in history. Control of minds by implanting chips is not anymore something impossible but a possibility in a near future. The more tools we have the more power to design tools for control and destruction as never could be imagined before. No, the Industrial Revolution was just a big change but what comes next, if we don't control it, is the last change.
- ferguess_k 1y ago
  Yeah, but how long did that happen? AI could happen a lot faster, likely measured in years. There are other differences that I can list, e.g. back then, ordinary people could still (relatively easily, comparing to nowadays) start a revolution because there is no significant tech gap between what a state could get and what citizens could get, so anything bad would be corrected in a violent way if it had to be. But with the advancement of technology, I doubt that would ever happen again -- unless we have a WW3 that set back every country by 100 years. So basically, my argument is, we are facing something that could happen imminently, but we couldn't tell whether it is good for ordinary people or not (I believe many are NOT optimistic), and there is no way to dial back -- shouldn't we stop to think through?
  - griblack 1y ago
    Hello ferguess_k, you are really direct at expressing your thinking. I wonder whether people with high karma are more cautious at posting. Since HN is about promoting progress, it could be that casting light against uncontrolled progress could hurt their karma points. Because they know that posts in HN can be used for LLMs to gather a highly informative user profile and hint about their professional life.

e1g 1y ago

Is there a form of this argument that could not be made leading up to the Industrial Revolution? Approximately 60-80% of pre-industrial ways of making a living disappeared or required complete reskilling. Does anyone seriously think we should’ve stopped progress that led to the Industrial Revolution?

griblack 1y ago
Just a simple example: compare an atomic bomb with the type of bomb from the Industrial Revolution. Today the scale and speed of change is unparalleled in history. Control of minds by implanting chips is not anymore something impossible but a possibility in a near future. The more tools we have the more power to design tools for control and destruction as never could be imagined before. No, the Industrial Revolution was just a big change but what comes next, if we don't control it, is the last change.
ferguess_k 1y ago
Yeah, but how long did that happen? AI could happen a lot faster, likely measured in years. There are other differences that I can list, e.g. back then, ordinary people could still (relatively easily, comparing to nowadays) start a revolution because there is no significant tech gap between what a state could get and what citizens could get, so anything bad would be corrected in a violent way if it had to be. But with the advancement of technology, I doubt that would ever happen again -- unless we have a WW3 that set back every country by 100 years. So basically, my argument is, we are facing something that could happen imminently, but we couldn't tell whether it is good for ordinary people or not (I believe many are NOT optimistic), and there is no way to dial back -- shouldn't we stop to think through?
- griblack 1y ago
  Hello ferguess_k, you are really direct at expressing your thinking. I wonder whether people with high karma are more cautious at posting. Since HN is about promoting progress, it could be that casting light against uncontrolled progress could hurt their karma points. Because they know that posts in HN can be used for LLMs to gather a highly informative user profile and hint about their professional life.