A little over two decades ago, my then girlfriend was arrested for "writing malware" (which was not against the law at the time, and which was never released into the wild and never caused any damage). This set in motion a chain of events that effectively ruined her life.
Fast forward to today, and we have multi billion dollar corporations pumping out malware at breakneck speeds, compromising various systems (including those of foreign governments), and no one is getting arrested. Instead we're gawking at the marvel of these systems and are playing word games about whether or not it's a rogue system. If anything, it's making people richer.
Not only have there been no consequences but those same companies are trying to position themselves as the best people to keep these AI systems in check.
Yeah I find the whole 'what if sufficiently advanced AI gets into the wrong hands' argument extremely tiresome when it's already in the worst possible hands as far as most of the human population is concerned.
let's not single out the defense contractors specifically, goes back further and is rooted in our behavior and desire for better organization through software.
so let's roll right over the fact that this is a very dangerous double entendre that i am pointing out, nevermind that you're not responding en merit to my assertion.
it's like slandering bitcoin over here you're all heavily unvested.
google kagi yahoo bing duckduckgo yandex archive yadda yadda yadda 'september transcript global ai governance'.
A subset of the builders of the current generation of AI systems literally hold death cult beliefs i.e. that all humans should effectuate the transition to a world run by only AI, without humans at all. These are the worst people in the world to be driving advanced AI development, from any reasonable human perspective.
On a question of morals, conventionally bad people generally don’t desire the end of all humanity.
Yeah, this all reminds me of facebooks "enter your email password so we can invite your friends" play which seemed so wrong at the time... But every non technical person at the time seemed to do it and by doing so grew the network and valuation to a surreal point to where it still sits today. I still cant rationalize it. (Except the wave allowed meta to consume Instagram and WhatsApp)
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Fast forward to today, and we have multi billion dollar corporations pumping out malware at breakneck speeds, compromising various systems (including those of foreign governments), and no one is getting arrested. Instead we're gawking at the marvel of these systems and are playing word games about whether or not it's a rogue system. If anything, it's making people richer.
Make it make sense.
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Not only have there been no consequences but those same companies are trying to position themselves as the best people to keep these AI systems in check.
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I appreciate the sentiment but I feel like there is a lack of creativity and imagination behind that statement.
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it was everywhere last week.
i would say, this has been the plot of the graph for at minimum 25 years with the NSA/DHS and data sharing.
we have two primary aggregators currently, the usa and china... all that needs to happen for us to cede humanity is to lose one of them.
we are in a really bad spot right now vs silicon.
edit: spelling.
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II
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it's like slandering bitcoin over here you're all heavily unvested.
google kagi yahoo bing duckduckgo yandex archive yadda yadda yadda 'september transcript global ai governance'.
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There are some powerful and highly capable evil people. I’m sure they are already stakeholders.
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On a question of morals, conventionally bad people generally don’t desire the end of all humanity.
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An as individual or small company director, you would get arrested.
If you have billions of dollars to pay for lawyers and have political influence, you are above the law.
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