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Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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And monkeys could fly out of my ass. Before we start hand wringing about AI someone would probably need to actually invent one. We're probably closer to actual room temperature fusion at this point than we are an actual general purpose AI.
Instead of wasting time worrying about a thing that doesn't even exist and probably won't in any of our lifetimes, we should probably do something about the things actually killing us like global warming and unchecked corporate greed.
Exactly. There was an article floating around just a couple of days ago that from what I recall was saying that billionaires were funding these AI-scare studies in top universities, I presume to distract the public from the very real and near scare of climate disaster, economic inequality, etc. Here, unfortunately paywalled: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/05/ai-apocalypse-college-students/
A lot of the folks worried about AI x-risk are also worried about climate, and pandemics, and lots of other things too. It's not like there's only one threat.
@fubo @xapr I don’t doubt that, but that begs the question whether the unrealistic concerns raised for by those folks outweigh the realistic ones that need more actual and funding. For example, how much money are the billionaires and top elites putting in to solve climate change, past/future pandemics compared to studying AI-driven doom? I don’t know the answer, and I welcome you to find out.
Right, the attention being paid to AI risk just seems vastly disproportionate compared to other much more serious imminent threats.