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LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

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wewewedxfgdf · 1791070718 · focus · HN ↗
Please explain exactly how all humanity could be wiped out.
It's ridiculous - anyone who thinks about it for a minute or two will realize that its utterly impossible.
Ordinary people/politicians don't understand AI so they turn off their rational mind and assume there is something super incredible some magical powers that they cannot understand that can destroy all humans.
Even humans - the real risk to humanity - could not destroy all humans even if they tried. There is no plausible scenario.
Even climate change and nuclear war and bio weapons - the most damaging mechanisms - would still only get some percentage of the people on earth.
And if we are talking about Skynet and self replicating robots and Terminators - please, grow up.
1. zug_zug · 1791071823 · focus · HN ↗
  Here's a wikipedia page on the topic, since it's much too deep a topic to really understand here.
  The ad-hominem stuff seems inappropriate here, Gates, Hawking, Musk have identified this as a credible threat, so saying "grow up" isn't really a sufficient argument. Also arguing only 90% of humanity would die isn't really much consolation.
  [1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...
  1. wewewedxfgdf · 1791072219 · focus · HN ↗
    Nothing here plausibly describes a mechanism that is a true "existential risk" - the risk to the existence of humanity.
    My argument stands and I don't defer to Gates and Musk and even Hawking - high level hand wavey statements without any plausible description of the mechanism just don't hold up. Famous names should not be automatically assumed to be right - certainly not with Elon Musk.
    zug_zug · 1791074689 · focus · HN ↗
    Well here's the thing, if we ever make an AI so smart that all known measures of intelligence fail to apply to it, I'm pretty sure you (no matter how smart you think you are) simply cannot say what it could achieve and how.
    wewewedxfgdf · 1791074843 · focus · HN ↗
    Right, so not the slightest basis of fact, just wild speculation about a magical future completely ungrounded in any sort of reality.
    That's exactly the point I am making.

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