> First: bad people doing bad things. I think most people are good people most of the time. Most people know blackmail is bad. But there are some people who wou

> First: bad people doing bad things. I think most people are good people most of the time. Most people know blackmail is bad. But there are some people who would blackmail all the time if it was simply easier to do. The reason they do not blackmail is because blackmail is hard and you’ll probably get caught. AI lowers the barrier to entry for being a terrible person. > Second: bad AI doing bad things. We do not yet know how to align AI to human values. Strange that the author doesn’t see the contradiction here. Harassment, hate, etc are human values. Common ones! Just, like, look around. Everyone has the option to choose otherwise, yet we often do not. (This is referred to as a “revealed preference.”) It may be that AI is such a powerful tool that it’s like giving your asshole neighbor a nuclear weapon. Or it may not be. If it’s more mundane, then it likely falls more in the category of knives, spy cameras, certain common chemicals, and AirTags: things that could (and sometimes will) be misused, but which have legitimate uses and are still typically legal in most parts of the world. Despite thinking most applications for AI are low value, I am firmly against restricting access to tools because of potential for misuse, unless an individual has shown themselves to be particularly dangerous. If you want an angle to contain potential damage, make a user responsible for what their AI does. That would be fair.