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The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical
- ThrowawayR2 1mo agoHe missed the most basic risk: unequal access. AI providers have enormous investments to pay off and enormous operating costs and want a ROI so they are going charge all the market will bear. Imagine a nightmare scenario where access to AI is like access to medical insurance coverage in the United States: white collar professionals get access to more tokens on better AI models through their employer and can afford the same for their personal endeavors. Meanwhile the working poor and unemployed are expected to make do with low cost AI models and smaller token allotments that they are grudgingly given by the tech megacorps at the cost of exposure to advertising or some other unwelcome intrusion. One could conceivably see the destitute pawning off possessions to buy enough high end LLM tokens to clean up their resume for an important job interview only to tragically blow them on their AI GF/BF because they needed a moment of reassurance in an uncaring world. Somebody ring up Cory Doctorow; I'm sure he could wring a cautionary dystopian tale out of the concept.
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- dgellow 1mo agoHave we considered NOT taking that risk? Given it is extremely unlikely that we will do the necessary preparation and take precautions. It’s fine to identify issues and benefits, but then you have to ask yourself why accept that gamble in behalf of the whole world
- tocs3 1mo agoWe live in a big modern world there some options that are not really available. As if we are stuck in a really wide raging river. We are not going to be going upstream regardless our desires. Saying stop I want out is not really an option.
- dgellow 1mo agoOf course it is. We do that for lots of technologies that are considered too risky, including weapons, cryptographic algorithms, substances, and way more
- throwaway_7274 1mo agoI don’t really understand this. Sometimes I see even stronger versions of this sentiment, that amount to saying, hey, it’s inevitable, so you might as well be e/acc. But you can just not do things. Societies can just not do things. They used to know this. We don’t have to admit the neoliberal Nuremberg defense of “I was just following incentives.”
- fsflover 1mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
- Jblx2 1mo agoHow would that work? Make a law that it is illegal to own more than X GFLOPS of computing per person? With another limit on corporations? Maybe a Computing Enforcement Agency to investigate potential violations? On a slightly different topic, why have I never heard about taxes for AI/robots? Is there a reason why people should be the only taxpayers?
- ChrisArchitect 1mo agoDunno what's going on with these urls; [dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448137
- unethical_ban 1mo agoWeird. I searched for it and didn't see anything. My bad.
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- mcswell 1mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450672, meet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451313 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451313 reply
- ungreased0675 1mo agoI really dislike the vision of the future the AI industry wants. There are so many things that could be built, why are we building potentially horrible ones?