Great read. For my part, I’m not afraid of A.I. tech per se. More so of the short-sidedness of the powers that be and the long-cascading repercussions of one-off decisions. Ex: say for the next three years AI is integrated into everything: from education to artistic compositions to tech work, etc. Then, all of a sudden, we are forced to stop using it because critical issues were found ( facts given were wrong, shows made sucked, the math stopped mathing after running the code 10,000,000 times, etc). We won’t be able to switch back to the previous status quo because 1) the pipeline feeding talent was broken when we stopped hiring for entry-level positions, 2) in that 3-year span, a lot of those people who really knew how things worked will retire or stop working in the field (insert any field where AI is integrated) 3) the powers that be will rather burn society down before acquiescing and ceding any power they’ve acquired. If an AI looks at the current state of things and decides it can give us a better utopia by eliminating our current pain points (namely, greed and corruption), maybe we should welcome it.
Apparently when the first nuke was tested half the scientists thought all the oxygen in the atmosphere would burn off. It didn’t. I feel like we are at that point again with AI but we already used up our free go back then.
Plus this is more centralization and I don’t think centralization is smart. And do we REALLY need to be more efficient? If so, why?
Great read. For my part, I’m not afraid of A.I. tech per se. More so of the short-sidedness of the powers that be and the long-cascading repercussions of one-off decisions. Ex: say for the next three years AI is integrated into everything: from education to artistic compositions to tech work, etc. Then, all of a sudden, we are forced to stop using it because critical issues were found ( facts given were wrong, shows made sucked, the math stopped mathing after running the code 10,000,000 times, etc). We won’t be able to switch back to the previous status quo because 1) the pipeline feeding talent was broken when we stopped hiring for entry-level positions, 2) in that 3-year span, a lot of those people who really knew how things worked will retire or stop working in the field (insert any field where AI is integrated) 3) the powers that be will rather burn society down before acquiescing and ceding any power they’ve acquired. If an AI looks at the current state of things and decides it can give us a better utopia by eliminating our current pain points (namely, greed and corruption), maybe we should welcome it.
You're one of the best humans. For the record. But I'm still scared of AI
Apparently when the first nuke was tested half the scientists thought all the oxygen in the atmosphere would burn off. It didn’t. I feel like we are at that point again with AI but we already used up our free go back then.
Plus this is more centralization and I don’t think centralization is smart. And do we REALLY need to be more efficient? If so, why?