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Ok, so I'm starting to separate out two elements to how I'm thinking about the AI question. First, the human/corporate shenanigans and then the inherent implications of AI.

Leaving the corporate/ state actors aside, what's your feeling about just the scenario of the unleashing of an intelligent entity on humans? I have a sense that we might have a knee jerk reaction like "Oh, look at the Spinning Jenny coming in to take away our jobs" and it seems certain that many tasks will be performed better with AI. We'll deal with it as humans, it appears to be akin to our generation's version of mechanisation.

What about the darker concern of AI run amok?

I don't know enough about it to know if that is a realistic issue or if it's a media hyped or "lizard people control the world" type of sensational thinking.

StackSats.IO 2y ago

One thing no-one on the “AI is going to kill us all!” side has been able to articulate yet - how is it going to jump to the physical realm?

Like it can do whatever in the digital realm and sure that could be destructive in some senses, but unless it can control physical things then it’s not really a threat to humanity.

So if you want to take the threat seriously, all you need to do is ensure it can’t access things like Boston Dynamics robots because it’s not going to control people. Like this idea it’s going to create a pathogen - don’t have those systems connected to the internet, network segmentation is a thing after all and that’s averted that problem right there.

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SovereigntyQuest 2y ago

To be honest I haven't read much of "AI will kill us" and to be fair I haven't read much of the "No, it won't" camp either. I tend towards the view that as a new tech it is going to disrupt many processes and industries but, that, I see akin to the disruption mechanisation had on industry in the Industrial Revolution. Uncomfortable, but humans will adapt as we always do.

Where I see real problems for us small potatoes is how states, corporations and media use it to fuk with us. It's probably best we prepare for that weirdness. Where I am unsure is whether the Singularity argument is sensationalist hype or a legitimate issue.