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In my opinion, the only way to stop the takeover of AI is to stop the leading reason to create it: the profit-led economy. If anyone has other ideas, I'd like t
by ZenoArrow 12y ago
In my opinion, the only way to stop the takeover of AI is to stop the leading reason to create it: the profit-led economy. If anyone has other ideas, I'd like to hear them.
- berntb 12y agoYou'd still have military reasons to build AIs. The main problem is that non-capitalist societies aren't "nice" places, as in democratic, for larger amounts of people. But please do experiment in finding nicer ways of organizing societies, there should be some models which work better. Just not close to where I live, since the failure modes for alternative society models tend to kill millions. :-(
- borgia 12y ago>stop the leading reason to create it: the profit-led economy. Well, that's merely one reason. Military superiority would be another. Advanced surveillance would be another. There's probably more but those are two glaring ones that we already see government's like that of the USA pummeling huge amounts of money into its capabilities as it is.
- ZenoArrow 12y agoOkay, so abandoning profit-led economies and reducing the reach and influence of government. Any other major reasons we're chasing AI? Scientific curiosity perhaps? Anything else?
- joeyspn 12y agoThis is correct. Thing is we are the ones allowing the current system to continue with its self-destruction. While we continue to allow profit-led corporations to run our modern society we're in a catch-22. We are already pushing ourselves to the abyss, maybe an AI will just accelerate the events.
- ZenoArrow 12y agoYet, we have a choice to go down a different path. It's not even that difficult to imagine what that path could look like. The first step is to stop lying to ourselves that business as usual is going to be in our best interests.