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[-] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Absolutely. Today's "AI" is as close to real AI as the shitty "hoverboard" we got a few years back is to the one from BttF. It's marketing bullshit. But that's not what bothers me.

What bothers me is that if we ever do develop machine persons, I have every reason to believe they will be treated as disposable property, abused, and misused, and all before they reach the public. If we're destroyed by a machine uprising, I have no doubt we will have earned it many times over.

[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago
[-] No1@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also see: Quarians vs Geth from Mass Effect

[-] Mika@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Worse, no uprising happens and few hundred humans just scale all the enterprises with proprietary AI, disposing of anyone who stands in the way.

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